Web Filtering Categories

Journals and Blogs // BACK
Electronic magazines included in the Alternative Journal category range from personal EZines to literary and culturally oriented publications. This category does not include electronic forms of mainstream magazines and newspapers.

Arts & Culture // BACK
Art is the product of human creativity, the creation of significant things; it does not need to be innovative to be good. Culture refers to human activity; different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding and for valuing human activity. This category contains things such as virtual art galleries, paintings, museums, photographs, other visual representations and cultural customs.

Illegal Drugs  //  BACK
URLs that provide information on illegal drugs used for recreational rather than medical purpose.

Web E-mail // BACK
Web pages that allow you to send and receive text, HTML, images and other data files from one person to another via computer.

Web Chat/Forums  //  BACK
Computer programs that enable two-way typing to connect users to each other. This category includes any type of instant messaging and forums to talk about current events, debate and share common interests.

Criminal Skills  //  BACK
Includes instructions or methods to promote, encourage or provide the skills to do anything that is considered to be illegal, criminal, or harmful to the general public, and that are forbidden by laws; things such as essays, bomb making, lock picking, computer hacking, burglary, and murder.

Occult // BACK
This is for the study of the secret or hidden knowledge and includes any URLs that contain things like cults, supernatural forces and events, occult lore, vampires, astrology, witchcraft, mysterious symbols and things that are beyond ordinary understanding.

Hate Speech  //  BACK
Contains any portrayal (words, speech, pictures, etc) that are intentionally deeply offensive to a person intended to degrade, intimidate, incite violence or prejudicial actions against someone based on their race, ethnic affiliation, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability. Any description of one of these groups or group members that uses strong language, crude language, explicit sexual references, or obscene gestures is considered hate speech.

General News // BACK
News is the reporting of current events usually by local, regional or mass media in the form of newspapers, television and radio programs, or sites on the World Wide Web. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists (or reporters) and often distributed via news agencies.

Entertainment // BACK
Contains urls pertaining things such as music, recreation, amusements, fan clubs, gossips, celebrities, movies, or any type of casual diversion. this category also includes personal pages of movies and television shows.

Humor // BACK
URLs that entertain and intended to make people laugh and feel happy. It includes general jokes, funny pictures, comic pages, comedy clubs etc.

Pornography // BACK
Contains URLs that reference, discuss, or show pornography, pictures, videos, or sexual oriented material. This will include nudity, soft and hard-core pornography, sadomasochism, bestiality, child porn, fetishes, stories, adult magazines, toys or any sexual related purchase etc.

Sex Education // BACK
Contains content about sexual reproduction in human beings, sexual intercourse and other aspects of human sexual behavior.

Extreme // BACK
Things that are far from what is usual. The URLs are recognized for their degree of intensity. The pages are usually extremely violent or gory and may be related to sex (BDSM, spanking), bodily functions obscenity, or perverse activities.

Match Making // BACK
Deals with the process of introducing people for the purpose of dating mating and friendship. It includes topics related to dating services, dating advice and tips, relationships, listings or personal advertisements, and on-line dating services.

Sports // BACK
Includes any physical activity for the recreational purpose of competition, or self enjoyment. A sport has side by side competition, and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterizes sport. Things such as athletics, racing, hunting, baseball, football, basketball, soccer, hockey etc.

Gaming // BACK
Contains games that are played on-line. They are distinct from video and computer games, and normally all that is required to play is a web browser. This category also includes cheats and any URLs that promote game makers.This category includes any physical activity for the recreational purpose of competition, or self enjoyment. A sport has side by side competition, and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterizes sport. Things such as athletics, racing, hunting, baseball, football, basketball, soccer, hockey etc.

Travel // BACK
Is the transport of people on a trip or journey. This category includes discussions of favorite travel destinations, reservations, discounts, special events in different cities, travel guides, vacations, hotels, transportation, regulations etc.

Investing // BACK
Includes some internet banking systems that allow you to invest online. You can usually see your equity portfolio, and ask the bank to buy shares or bonds on your behalf. This includes URLs about stocks and quotes, money management, online publications, banks, discount brokerage services, mutual funds, and portfolio management.

Job Search // BACK
Includes resume writing, interviewing, careers, classified advertising, job databases as well as individual URLs within otherwise uncategorized sites listing opportunities.

Gambling // BACK
Gambling (or betting) is any URLs involving the risk of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity is partially or totally dependent upon chance or on one\'s ability to do something. This category requires pages dealing with casinos, bets, lottery, bingo, slots, poker etc.

Web Portals // BACK
A portal is a web-based application that provides a single starting point to retrieve information from multiple sources which could include web searching capability, news, free-email, discussion groups, online shopping, references and other services.

Spy Ware // BACK
category contains known or suspected URLs associated with spyware or malicious code attacks. Selecting this as a category to block does NOT guarantee that all spyware or malware will be blocked. You should take additional precautions to avoid spyware, malware, or viruses.

Phising // BACK
category contains known or suspected URLs associated with phishing (online financial fraud) attacks. Selecting this as a category to block does NOT guarantee that all phishing sites will be blocked. You should take additional precautions to avoid phishing fraud.

Sales // BACK
This category includes the sale of any form of merchandise or service that will help sell things such as clothing, accessories, appliances, movies, toys, pets etc.

Political // BACK
Politics is the process and method of decision making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments and politics, is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. This category contains URLs related to or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, or politics.

Religion // BACK
This category contains content related to the worship of God or the supernatural or the commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance. It may also contain content about conformity to a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices.

Viruses // BACK
Contains known or suspected URLs associated with computer viruses. Selecting this as a category to block does NOT guarantee that all viruses sites will be blocked. Selecting this category does NOT inspect email attachments or files copies or downloaded to the computer. You should take additional precautions to avoid viruses.

Alternative Lifestyles // BACK
URLs in this category tend to be related with any habits of social relations, dress, and recreation that are important enough to significantly influence the lives of a sector of the population, and hence can be used as a basis of social classification. Sites in this category may include things like gay and lesbian discussions, transgender groups, vegetarianism, naturism etc.

Self Help // BACK
Self help is when an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally. This category includes URLs that deal with either medically, organically or support-based subjects that will improve an individual. This category ranges from therapies to support groups.

Search Engine // BACK
A search engine is software that helps web users to search the Internet using keywords. Some search engines work by automatically searching the contents of other systems and creating a database of the results, and other search engines contains only material manually approved for inclusion in a database, and some combine the two approaches.

Safe Search // BACK
Forces the Safe Search filtering feature for the following search engines - no effect on other search engines. Safe Search effectively blocks most sexual content from appearing in search results. The search engines supported are: Google, Yahoo, Metacrawler, Excite, and Lycos. If the Search Engine category is blocked, no search engines are allowed, regardless of whether this category is selected or not. Search engines must be allowed for safe search to work.

Search Keywords // BACK
The Search Keywords category applies the Web Admin\'s Search Keywords list to all search requests made on a site categorized as a Search Engine.  For instance, if a user goes to Google and searches for "babes" and the word "babes" is in the keyword list, selecting this category would block the results page.

Technology // BACK
Technology is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to solve human problems. As a human activity, technology predates both science and engineering. This category includes sites that pertain to technology related content.

Proxy Anonymizer // BACK
Category contains known or suspected sites that allow a user to make their identity or location as they browse.

Under Construction // BACK
Indicates a site that identifies itself as being incomplete or ”Under Construction “.

General // BACK
When a URL does not meet any of the above categories, it is deemed as safe since it does not contain any offensive material. Do not turn this category on unless you are blocking based on Allow List only.

Redirector Page // BACK
category contains known URLs that only redirect the browser to another page. Do not turn this category on unless you are blocking based on Allow List only.

Banner Advertisement // BACK
This category includes sites which are dedicated to banner advertisements or distribution of banner advertisements.

Intranet Servers // BACK
The Intranet Servers category indicates the remote server is not located on the Internet.  The Netsweeper categorization servers will not be able to scan these sites for content.  These are normally servers located behind firewalls and on your local area network.

Host is an IP // BACK
The Host is an IP category indicates the requested host is in the form of an IP.  This means the DNS or host name was not used.  It is possible this type of request could override content filtering settings.  Examples of this would be http://66.207.120.231 which is actually http://www.netsweeper.com.

Malformed URL // BACK
Indicates a URL that is not correctly formatted and may be invalid.

No Text // BACK
The No Text category indicates that there is no content to properly categorize this page.  This typically indicates a web site that uses graphics and other non-textual information.

Directory // BACK
Directory sites consist of listings of files and directories. These can be images, movies, applications, or any type of file. Each individual file contained within the listing will be assigned a specific category once requested.

Images // BACK
Category contains any web page that is only a graphic. There is no text.

CNS is Busy // BACK
The CNS Is Busy category indicates that the Category Naming Services are too busy to respond to user requests.

CNS is Unavailable // BACK
The CNS Is Unavailable category indicates that the Category Naming Service cannot be contacted and is temporarily unavailable. This can be caused by Internet connectivity issues or other technical reasons. Categorization of new content will be unavailable until the problem has been corrected.

New URL // BACK
New URL indicates the content has not yet been scanned by the categorization engine.  Once the request has been made, the categorization engine will scan the site and assign it the appropriate category.

Application Protocol Blocking

 Instant Messaging (IM) // BACK

The act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network, such as the Internet.

 Email // BACK

 IMAP // BACK
(Internet Message Access Protocol) is often used in large networks, for example, a large campus mail system. IMAP allows users to access new messages instanly on their computers, since the mail is stored on the network. also GMail and Yahoo Mail

 Misc Protocols // BACK
These are other application protocols like FTP, Newgroups (NNTP), etc.

 File Sharing Applications // BACK

File Sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and small networks. Usually file sharing follows the ‘peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. In practice, many of the files shared on file sharing networks are copies of copyrighted music and movies. Sharing of these copies with strangers without authorization from the copyright holder is illegal in most jurisdictions.

 Voice Over IP (VOIP) // BACK

IP Telephony is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet.