Safe Surfing Filter Glossary
This category includes URLs that promote plagiarism or cheating by providing term papers, written essays, or exam answers.
This category includes URLs that offer unfiltered, unrestricted, unverified, search engine results.
This category includes sites with sexual innuendo, humor, ecommerce, educational or medical descriptions or depictions of sexual acts, specifically those without the intent to arouse. Sites which contain material intended to arouse, fall under the Pornography category.
Sites in this category provide repositories of download copies of shareware and freeware. Shareware is distributed on the basis of an honor system. Most shareware is delivered free of charge, but the author usually requests that you pay a small fee if you like the program and use it regularly. Freeware is software that is available without any cost.
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 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.