2010

GFI WebMonitor 2009: clear, simple and intuitive

Leandro Amore describes GFI WebMonitor 2009 as a stable, intuitive and easy to use monitoring software that gives clear results and could provide organizations with further insight about their users' browsing habits - Leandro Amore, Jan 6, 2010

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server wins in the Content Security category

ISAserver.org visitors voted GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server as the best in its respective field and selected it as the winner in the Content Security category of the ISAserver.org Readers' Choice Awards. - ISAserver.org, Dec 22, 2009

2009

GFI WebMonitor 2009 recommended by Business Computing World

Business Computing World.co.uk review GFI WebMonitor 2009 and recommend it saying that "WebMonitor 2009 did everything we expected of it, blocking access to inappropriate Web sites and protecting users against malicious downloads." - BusinessComputingWorld.co.uk, December 23rd, 2009

GFI WebMonitor 2009 Review - Awarded 5 Gold Stars

A review of the capabilities and features of GFI WebMonitor 2009, an integrated Web security, monitoring and Internet access control product from GFI Software - ISAServer.org, December 2009

GFI WebMonitor 2009 completes the security picture

Dragos Lungu Dot Com reviews GFI WebMonitor 2009 and finds that it "proves to be a very effective security control which protects the largest threat vector in use today : web browsing." - Dragos LunguDot Com, November 2009

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server voted ISAserver.org Reader's Choice Award Winner

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server was selected the winner in the ISA Monitoring and Administration category of the ISAserver.org Readers' Choice Awards - ISAserver.org, October 2009

Best Channel Product 2009 Award

Five Best Channel Products Awards organized by Business Solutions Magazine have been given to GFI's products. GFI rated exceptionally well in the Network Security category and very high in terms of ease of upgrade and VARs’ ability to service the product. The winning products are: GFI MailArchiver, GFI MailEssentials, GFI EndPointSecurity, GFI WebMonitor and GFI MAX RemoteManagement, the latest offering from GFI specifically for VARs, MSPs and IT support companies.

GFI WebMonitor 2009: effective and immediate results

Italian website ISAserver.it endorses GFI WebMonitor 2009 as being a "rich and complete" solution with a thorough review of the product's installation process. ISAserver.it maintain that the software is easy to install and configure, to the point that, documentation, whilst available, is not even needed - ISAserver.it, June 2009

GFI WebMonitor: comprehensive monitoring tool

GFI WebMonitor installs directly on top of your existing ISA Server installation "adding much greater and simpler control of ingress and egress web traffic". Installation and deployment are simple thanks to the step by step wizard - BlogFoo, 2009

GFI WebMonitor: one of the best monitoring tools

GFI WebMonitor impresses Augusto Alvarez as "one of the best monitoring tools for bandwidth consumption" that is easy to configure and requires "minimum overhead in network connectivity" - Augusto Alvarez, 2009

Four-Star-review

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server receives four stars in a review in SC Magazine. The product is a comprehensive monitoring tool and is extremely useful to add features that are missing from Microsoft ISA Server.
- SC Magazine, 2009

2008

GFI WebMonitor wins award in the Content Security category

GFI WebMonitor™ has been selected the winner in the Content Security category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organized by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry. - ISAserver.org, December 2008

Web monitoring and anti-virus solution tops the Access Control category

GFI WebMonitor™ has been selected as the best solution in the ISA Monitoring and Management category on ISAserver.org. - ISAserver.org, October 2008

Network Product Guide Award for GFI WebMonitor

GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server has been named the winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the web filtering category by Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication on technologies and solutions. - NetworkProductsGuide, August 2008

Competent ISA add-in

In a comparative review of Web Content Management in SC Magazine, GFI WebMonitor™ WebFilter Edition is given four stars out of five. The reviewer says that the product plugs right into ISA Server very easily and adds some nice filtering capability. He says it is “a competent add-in for MS ISA Server at a very good price”. - SC Magazine, April 2008

2007

GFI WebMonitor wins award in Monitoring & Management solution category

GFI WebMonitor™ has been selected the winner in the Monitoring & Management solution category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organized by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry. - ISAserver.org, October 2007

Excellent value solution

In a review of GFI WebMonitor™, Tarek Majdalani describes the product as "solid, easy to use, well documented and well supported" and gives it 4.5 stars out of 5. He says it provides the perfect balance between best-of-breed security protection and ease of use, as well as being light on system resources. Priced at the low end of the spectrum, Majdalani said it is "excellent value for organizations of just about any size". Concluding, he recommends GFI WebMonitor for "its performance, feature set, cost and ease of use". - Elmajdal.net, September 2007

4.5 out of 5 for GFI WebMonitor

In a review on About.com, Ryan Groom says GFI WebMonitor™ "lives up to being one of those tools" to control users’ browsing activities and to protect the network against viruses and malware. He praises the product’s ease of installation and use, adding that it "is an excellent addition to any ISA installation. The control and knowledge that an administrator can glean from using the tool is definitely worth the price tag for the peace of mind it affords". He concludes with a recommendation: "If you have ISA 2006, get GFI WebMonitor for ISA." - BizSecurity.about.com, September 2007

GFI WebMonitor award in anti-virus category

GFI WebMonitor™ has been selected the second runner-up in the Anti Virus category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organized by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry. - ISAserver.org, June 2007

GFI WebMonitor award in access control category

GFI WebMonitor™ has been selected the winner for the second year running in the Access Control category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organized by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry. - ISAserver.org, April 2007

2006

Web monitoring and anti-virus solution tops the Access Control category

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server was selected by ISAserver.org readers as the first runner up in the Content Security category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards. - ISAserver.org, December 2006

GFI WebMonitor voted best in Monitoring and Administration

ISAserver.org readers vote GFI WebMonitor™ as the winner in the Monitoring and Administration category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards. - ISAserver.org, October 2006

GFI WebMonitor wins Access Control Readers' Choice Award

ISAserver.org readers voted GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server as the winner in the Access Control category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. - ISAserver.org, April 2006

Slick and easy to configure

GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server received the Silver Award from popular resource site ISAserver.org. In a review about the importance of increasing protection against exploits that take place over the web, reviewer Thomas Schinder described GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server as "one of the slickest and easiest to configure and manage solutions". The review praises the product's "useful web access and monitoring features", which include the ability to "monitor user activity in real-time", "quickly view a URL history", "block access to adult websites/domains" and "check all web and web proxy mediated FTP downloads". - ISAserver.org, January 2006

2004

"A must have add-on for every ISA 2000/2004 installation"

GFI WebMonitor™ 2 for ISA Server was described by reviewer Thomas Shinder as “a dream come true for ISA firewall administrators” since “it fills an important gap in the ISA Server 2000/2004 firewall feature set”. GFI WebMonitor 2 provides “a way to view in real-time what users are accessing on the web”. The reviewer also points out that slow Internet performance that arises from users who download large files can be stopped because the product allows for “an easy way to disconnect users who are downloading giant sized files” without having to “go through the ISA 2004 real-time log monitor” and additional steps. - ISAserver.org, July 2004

GFI WebMonitor highlighted as exceptional product

Windows & .Net Magazine reader, Peter Vogel of Vancouver, British Columbia applauded GFI Webmonitor™ in the magazine's What’s Hot section. The reader uses GFI WebMonitor in a school network environment with servers handling internal Internet traffic for both students and staff, as well as about two dozen sites. Mr. Vogel stated, “The product lets me get a quick snapshot of Internet traffic on those servers. As far as I know, short of going into the ISA Server traffic logs themselves, there’s no other way to get such a snapshot in what’s essentially real-time.” - Windows & .Net Magazine, June 2004

2003

5-star rating for GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server

Softforall.com, a site providing high quality shareware and freeware, awarded GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server the highest possible rating of five stars. - Softforall.com, October 2003

High score for GFI WebMonitor

Sharewareriver.com, a web-site featuring a vast collection of shareware and freeware software on the Internet, awarded GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server 4 out of 5 points. - SharewareRiver.com, September 2003

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server awarded

Top software distribution site FileTransit.com, which features high quality software, awarded GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA Server full marks, giving the product a 5-star rating. - FileTransit.com, May 2003

2002

Track down bandwidth hogs

"The good folks at GFI have given us yet another great tool and the best news is it's free," writes well-known reviewer Andy Goodman. "Ever wonder who's doing what on the web tying up all that bandwidth? Well here is a way for you to find out, from anywhere on the network... GFI WebMonitor™ for ISA installs in under a minute as a Web filter and self-configures. It does require a restart of the Web Proxy Service, however you will not need to reboot the server." - DownHome Computers, December 2002