Our Web Protection Service, SecureSurf®, utilizes a Categories filter that blocks Web traffic by 53 categories. Here is a list of the categories and their associated definitions:
- Ads - Sites that host online advertisements, which include advertising graphics, banners, and pop-up content.
- Alcohol - Sites that promote or sell alcohol.
- Anonymizer - Sites with tools that can proxy bypass information or services.
- Art - Sites for Theater, museums, exhibits, photography, and digital graphic resources.
- Autos - Sites about automobiles, including manufacturers, news, reviews and hobbyist information.
- Business - Sites for businesses of all sizes, especially company Web sites.
- Chat - Sites where you can chat in real-time with groups of people.
- Compromised - Valid Web sites that have been hacked and are distributing malware attacks.
- Criminal - Sites that promote software hacking or encourage activities that are illegal, criminal, or harmful to the general public.
- Dating - Sites for meeting other people.
- Download - Sites that offer shareware, freeware, and other legal software downloads.
- Drugs - Sites about illegal or recreational drug use.
- Education - Sites for educational materials and schools, covering all age levels and types.
- Finance - Sites for banks, brokerages, trusts, and other financial organizations.
- Food - Sites about food, dining, catering services, food critics, restaurant reservation, and restaurant review sites.
- Forums - Sites with discussions, bulletin boards, message boards, and forums.
- Gambling - Sites that offer gambling or information about gambling.
- Games - Sites that offer playable games or information about games.
- Government - Sites operated by government agencies, including city, state, regional, county and federal levels.
- Hate - Sites that promote prejudice based on gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
- Health - Sites that offer information about health care or health services.
- Home - Sites about home improvement, decorating, family, pets, gardening, cooking, event planning (non-wedding) and hobbies.
- Humor - Sites that are intended to be funny or humorous.
- Jobs - Sites that offer job listings, resume services, interview coaching and similar employment-related services.
- Malware - Sites or software that installs on a user's computer with the intent to collect information or make system changes without the user's consent.
- Media - Sites that stream TV shows, videos, or movies.
- Military - Sites sponsored or devoted to the armed forces and government-controlled agencies.
- Miscellaneous - Web sites that do not fall into any of the other categories.
- Music - Sites about Internet radio, streaming media, musicians, bands, and MP3 download sites.
- News - Sites that offer news and information, including newspapers, broadcasters and other publishers.
- Non-profits - Sites for non-profit or charity organizations and services.
- Nudity - Web sites that provide images or descriptions of nudity.
- Personal - Sites about or hosted by personal individuals. Includes personal blogs, guestbook servers, personal hobbies, activities, etc.
- Pharmacy - Sites that provide information about approved drugs and their medical uses.
- Phishing - Sites that pretend to be legitimate business sites while obtaining private information from users.
- Politics - Sites that support politics and provide political party information, including elections or legislation.
- Pornography - Sites that contain any depiction of pornography.
- Portal - Sites that offer an entry to the Internet, including bundled services on their own site.
- Real Estate - Sites that post real estate listings and promote real estate agents/brokers.
- Religion - Sites about religion, religious teachings and groups, and spirituality.
- Search Engines - Sites that display result listings based on keywords.
- Shopping - Sites that sell products and services online.
- Social Network - Sites that promote interaction and networking between people.
- Spam - Web site links found inside spammed e-mails are automatically added to this list.
- Sports - Sites about sports of all kinds, from professional to amateur, from news to league information and schedules.
- Tasteless - Sites that contain offensive and tasteless information on controversial subjects.
- Technology - Sites about computing, hardware and technology, including news, information, code and vendor information.
- Tobacco - Sites that promote or sell all tobacco products.
- Translator - Sites that offer language translations.
- Travel - Sites with travel information and services, including reservations for airlines, cars, hotels, vacations, and trips.
- Violence - Sites that promote violence and sedition.
- Weapons - Sites about weapons, commercial and otherwise.
- Webmail - Sites that offer the ability to send or receive email.
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Article ID: 514, Created: February 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Modified: May 16, 2017 at 2:07 PM