Safe Surfing Filter Glossary

This category includes information relevant to gambling, without providing the means to do so. Examples include gambling links, tips, sports picks, lottery results, as well as horse, car or boat racing, etc.

This category is specific to fantasy or fictitious representations of violence within the context of games, comics, cartoons, or graphic novels. This includes images and textual descriptions of physical assaults or hand-to-hand combat, as well as grave injury and destruction caused by weapons or explosives. 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 offer online games and related information such as cheats, codes, demos, and emulators. The Games category also includes online contests or role-playing games, in addition to URLs that focus on traditional board games, reviews, and sites that promote game manufacturers. Fantasy virtual sport leagues may also be included in the Gambling category, in combination with the Games and Sports categories.

The general news category applies to most online news and mainstream publications, such as business, trade, and medical journals, as well as high school and university newspapers. It also includes headline-news sites, newswire services, and proprietary news services.

This category includes URLs with information from world-wide governmental institutions, and armed forces Home pages.

This category includes URLs with content such as tasteless humor, excretory functions (vomiting, urinating, or defecating), graphic medical or accident scene photos (containing blood or wounds), and some extreme forms of body modification (cutting, branding, or genital piercing).

This category includes URLs that distribute information and hacking tools (root kits, kiddy scripts, etc.) that help individuals gain unauthorized access to computer systems.

This category is dedicated to any sort of information that would encourage the oppression of a specific group of individuals. This includes promoting, explicitly or implicitly, an agenda against groups based on race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

This category contains URLs with topics designed to improve an individual’s well-being. Sites may provide information on new medications, alternative medicine, medically related sex or drug therapies, fitness, mental health, parenting, or support groups. This category may also be used as an exception to allow access to sites that have a medical focus but may belong to another category such as Nudity, Sexual Materials, Gruesome Content, etc.

This category may be used as an exception to allow access to sites that are non-fictional and historically significant, which may belong to other categories such as Politics/Opinion, Sexual Materials, Violence, etc. This category is designed specifically for content that may be suitable for a mature classroom environment.

The humor category includes URLs that intend to be comical or funny. These sites include general jokes, comic pages, and comedy clubs.

This category includes URLs that have a legitimate purpose to provide information about data protection, but in doing so present a risk that the information provided may be exploited by users in order to breach security or commit unlawful acts. This applies to detailed information intended to safeguard business or personal data, intellectual property, privacy, and infrastructure on the Internet, private networks, or in other bandwidth services such as telecommunications.

URLs in this category provide access and/or software that allow people to communicate in “real time” over the Internet. The software often allows file transfer and tracking of when other people log on and off of the Internet.

This category includes URLs that provide access to live or interactive Web applications such as browser-based office suites and Groupware. Interactive Web applications can present security risks such as leaking or loss of proprietary data. Sites categorized as Interactive Web Applications include those with business, academic, or individual focus. Sites providing access to interactive Web applications that do not take critical user data or offer security risks; i.e. Google Maps are excluded.

URLs in this category provide software and/or access to continuous broadcasting of radio and TV programming.

This category includes URLs related to a job search. It encompasses sites concerned with resume writing, interviewing, changing careers, classified advertising, and large job databases. It also includes corporate Web pages listing job openings.

Sites in this category deploy code that has been designed specifically to hijack your computer’s settings or activity.

This category includes URLs that provide files to download such as MP3s, videos, movie collections, and others.

This category includes URLs that provide streaming messaging services such as computer to mobile phone text-messaging via SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Message Service) or computer to fax machine messaging.

This category includes URLs that provide software or utilities for mobile phones that can downloaded from Websites and delivered to mobile phones. Examples include Ringtones, Logos/skins, games, screen-savers, text-based tunes, iMODE, and software for SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).