User Guide

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AsyncOS 9.1.2 for Cisco Email Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 15 URL Filtering
About URL Categories
Education edu 1001 Education-related, such as schools, colleges,
universities, teaching materials, and teachers’
resources; technical and vocational training; online
training; education issues and policies; financial aid;
school funding; standards and testing.
www.education.com
www.greatschools.org
Entertainment ent 1093 Details or discussion of films; music and bands;
television; celebrities and fan websites;
entertainment news; celebrity gossip; entertainment
venues. Compare with the “Arts” category.
www.eonline.com
www.ew.com
Extreme extr 1075 Material of a sexually violent or criminal nature;
violence and violent behavior; tasteless, often gory
photographs, such as autopsy photos; photos of
crime scenes, crime and accident victims; excessive
obscene material; shock websites.
www.car-accidents.com
www.crime-scene-photos.co
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Fashion fash 1076 Clothing and fashion; hair salons; cosmetics;
accessories; jewelry; perfume; pictures and text
relating to body modification; tattoos and piercing;
modeling agencies. Dermatological products are
classified as “Health and Nutrition.”
www.fashion.net
www.findabeautysalon.com
File Transfer
Services
fts 1071 File transfer services with the primary purpose of
providing download services and hosted file sharing
www.rapidshare.com
www.yousendit.com
Filter Avoidance filt 1025 Promoting and aiding undetectable and anonymous
web usage, including cgi, php and glype anonymous
proxy services.
www.bypassschoolfilter.com
www.filterbypass.com
Finance fnnc 1015 Primarily financial in nature, such as accounting
practices and accountants, taxation, taxes, banking,
insurance, investing, the national economy, personal
finance involving insurance of all types, credit cards,
retirement and estate planning, loans, mortgages.
Stock and shares are classified as “Online Trading.”
finance.yahoo.com
www.bankofamerica.com
Freeware and
Shareware
free 1068 Providing downloads of free and shareware
software.
www.freewarehome.com
www.shareware.com
Gambling gamb 1049 Casinos and online gambling; bookmakers and odds;
gambling advice; competitive racing in a gambling
context; sports booking; sports gambling; services
for spread betting on stocks and shares. Websites
dealing with gambling addiction are classified as
“Health and Nutrition.” Government-run lotteries
are classified as “Lotteries”.
www.888.com
www.gambling.com
Games game 1007 Various card games, board games, word games, and
video games; combat games; sports games;
downloadable games; game reviews; cheat sheets;
computer games and Internet games, such as
role-playing games.
www.games.com
www.shockwave.com
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