User`s manual

Intego ContentBarrier X5 User’s Manual Page 56
Application Filtering
ContentBarrier X5 gives you the option of only allowing users to access the Internet with specific
applications. Rather than filter web access by category, for example, you can prevent a user from
using any web browser. You can choose which applications can access the Internet; all other
applications are blocked. To set up application filtering, click the Applications button on the
ContentBarrier X5 button bar, then check “Only allow the following applications to connect to the
Internet:”.
Application filtering will supersede all other ContentBarrier X5 filtering rules. If, for example, you
do not add a web browser to the application list, then web filtering will have no effect: all web sites
will be inaccessible, as no program that accesses them is available. However, ContentBarrier X5’s
other filtering rules apply to all applications added to this list. So if you choose to allow a user to