User Guide

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AsyncOS 9.1.2 for Cisco Email Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 15 URL Filtering
About URL Categories
Online
Communities
comm 1024 Affinity groups; special interest groups; web
newsgroups; message boards. Excludes websites
classified as “Professional Networking” or “Social
Networking.”
www.igda.org
www.ieee.org
Online Storage and
Backup
osb 1066 Offsite and peer-to-peer storage for backup, sharing,
and hosting.
www.adrive.com
www.dropbox.com
Online Trading trad 1028 Online brokerages; websites that enable the user to
trade stocks online; information relating to the stock
market, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokers, stock
analysis and commentary, stock screens, stock
charts, IPOs, stock splits. Services for spread betting
on stocks and shares are classified as “Gambling.”
Other financial services are classified as “Finance."
www.tdameritrade.com
www.scottrade.com
Organizational
Email
pem 1085 Websites used to access business email (often via
Outlook Web Access).
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Parked Domains park 1092 Websites that monetize traffic from the domain
using paid listings from an ad network, or are owned
by “squatters” hoping to sell the domain name for a
profit. These also include fake search websites
which return paid ad links.
www.domainzaar.com
www.parked.com
Peer File Transfer p2p 1056 Peer-to-peer file request websites. This does not
track the file transfers themselves.
www.bittorrent.com
www.limewire.com
Personal Sites pers 1081 Websites about and from private individuals;
personal homepage servers; websites with personal
contents; personal blogs with no particular theme.
www.karymullis.com
www.stallman.org
Photo Searches and
Images
img 1090 Facilitating the storing and searching for, images,
photographs, and clip-art.
www.flickr.com
www.photobucket.com
Politics pol 1083 Websites of politicians; political parties; news and
information on politics, elections, democracy, and
voting.
www.politics.com
www.thisnation.com
Pornography porn 1054 Sexually explicit text or depictions. Includes explicit
anime and cartoons; general explicit depictions;
other fetish material; explicit chat rooms; sex
simulators; strip poker; adult movies; lewd art;
web-based explicit email.
www.redtube.com
www.youporn.com
Professional
Networking
pnet 1089 Social networking for the purpose of career or
professional development. See also “Social
Networking.”
www.linkedin.com
www.europeanpwn.net
Real Estate rest 1045 Information that would support the search for real
estate; office and commercial space; real estate
listings, such as rentals, apartments, and homes;
house building.
www.realtor.com
www.zillow.com
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