Safe Surfing Filter Glossary

This category includes URLs that arrive in unsolicited SPAM emails. These are harvested directly from user’s email inboxes.

This category may be used to enhance productivity by keeping employees from purchasing products and services online. This includes URLs that specifically sell products or services online. Many Online Shopping sites pose a risk to users by offering access to items that would normally be filtered under other categories such as Pornography, Weapons, Nudity, or Violence.

This category includes URLs that arrive in unsolicited SPAM emails. These are harvested directly from user’s email inboxes.

This category includes URLs related to sports, such as: sports teams, sport discussions, and sports scores. Fantasy football leagues may also be included in this category, sometimes in combination with the Gambling category.

This category includes URLs that download software that covertly gathers user information through the user’s Internet connection, without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. This may be considered a violation of privacy and may have bandwidth and security implications. These practices are not part of the normal practice of software registration. This category is mainly populated using expert 3rd party informatio

This category is designed to stop users from trading stock at work or accessing tickertape information. It should not prevent people from doing business research on the web.

This category includes URLs that provide streaming media, or contain software plugins that allow the displaying of audio and visual data before the entire file has been transmitted. Excess data is saved in a buffer.

This category includes sites with a technical or business focus that provide online message posting or real-time chat such as technical support or interactive business communication.

This category may be used as an exception category to allow explicit text and recorded material to be accessed when graphical content may be blocked using the Pornography, Violence, or Sexual Materials categories. Libraries or Universities in particular may wish to utilize this category, as it will focus Web filtering on offensive graphics that may be displayed in their public facilities.

This category includes URLs that sell, promote, or advocate the use of tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipe and chewing tobacco.

This category includes airline Web sites, travel-booking agencies, and other travel-related information, such as tourist highlights and special events in various cities.

The Usenet News category includes URLs that provide Web access to Usenet news groups and archives of files uploaded to newsgroups.

The violence category includes real or lifelike images or text that portray, describe, or advocate physical assaults against humans, animals, or institutions (for example: depictions of war, suicide, mutilation, dismemberment). Sites showing the outer end of this spectrum, such as depictions of torture, gore, or horrific death, are also rated as Extreme.

This category includes URLs that provide image-specific search results such as thumbnail pictures.

This category includes URLs that provide information about buying, making, modifying, or using weapons such as guns, knives, swords, as well as ammunition or explosives. Weapons pages may highlight personal or military use.

This category includes URLs that provide ad-hosting or programs that create advertisements. For example: links, source code or applets for banners, pop-ups, and other kinds of static or dynamically generated ads that appear on Web pages.

URLs in this category provide access to email. Web Mail sites can expose users to harmful content delivered via e-mail file attachments.

This category includes sites that enable users to make telephone calls via the Internet or obtain information or software for this purpose. Web Phones are also called Internet Telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Web phone service includes PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone, and phone-to-phone services connecting via TCP/IP networks.