Trustwave Web Filtering | Database Categories Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories Adult Content Community/Organizations Government/Law/Politics Child Pornography Community Organizations Government Explicit Art Local Community Legal Obscene/Tasteless Military Appreciation Education Pornography/Adult Content Military Official Education R Rated Political Opinion Educational Games Bandwidth Online Classes Health/Fitness Image Servers & Image Search Engines Reference Fitness Internet Radio Health/Medical Entertainment Peer-to-Peer/FileSharing Holistic Art Video Sharing Self Help Comics VoIP Entertainment Illegal/Questionable Web Based Storage Gambling Criminal Skills Streaming Media Humor Dubious/Unsavory • Flash Video Kids Hate & Discrimination • Generic Streaming Movies & Television Illegal Drugs • QuickTime Video Music Appreciation School Cheating • Real Time Streaming Protocol Online Greeting Cards Terrorist/Militant/Extremist • Windows Media Video Restaurant Business/Investments Theater Employment Games Financial Institutions • Games General Business • Games Patterns Online Trading/Brokerage Real Estate Trustwave Web Filtering | Database Categories Information Technology Internet Productivity Security Dynamic DNS Servers Adware Bad Reputation Domains Freeware/Shareware Banner/Web Ads BotNet Information Technology Fantasy Sports Hacking Internet Service Providor Free Hosts Malicious Code/Virus Portals Web Hosts Phishing Search Engines Remote Access Spyware Web-Based Newsgroups • Generic Remote Access Web-based Proxies • GoToMyPC Internet Communication Shopping • pcAnywhere Chat Online Auction • Remote Desktop Message Boards Shopping • Secure Shell Online Communities • Virtual Network Computing Society/Lifestyles Translation Services Alcohol Web Based Email Internet/Intranet Misc. Animals/Pets Web Logs/Personal Pages Domain Landing Books & Literature Web-Based Productivity Apps Edge Content Servers/Infrastructure Dating/Personals Instant Messaging (IM) Invalid Web Pages Fashion • Generic IM Reviewed/Miscellaneous Lifestyle & Culture • Google Chat News/Reports Recreation • Google Talk News Self Defense • ICQ_and_AIM Sports Social Opinion • MSN_Messenger Weather/Traffic Tobacco • Meebo Weapons • My Space IM Religion/Beliefs • PoPo Paranormal Travel/Events • QQ Religion Tickets • ToToMoMo Travel • WangWang Vehicles • Yahoo_IM Database categories Adware Books & Literature Sites that promote or offer software that collects information Sites that discuss and promote books, literature, and periodicals about users to display target advertisement based on user distributed with the intention of providing entertainment. browsing patterns and/or install advertising toolbars with the • Authors’ sites, publishers’ promotional sites (not “How To user’s knowledge and consent. Publish” or “Let Us Publish Your Book”) Sample sites: www.toolbardearquitectura.com, • Online books (i.e., Project Gutenberg, eBooks, etc.) www.toolbarnet.com, www.bahaitoolbar.com • Books on Tape Alcohol • Literary Reviews Sites promoting the use of alcohol, including drink recipes, home • Fan-Fiction or other short fiction works brewing methodology, advertisements, etc. • Written screenplays/scripts (movies, tv, or drama) • Sites promoting the use of alcohol for consumption purposes, Sample sites: www.bookbrowse.com, www.ebooks.com, including pubs, bars, breweries, alcohol manufacturers www.danbrown.com • Sites which contain drink recipes, bartenders guides, or drinking games BotNet • Sites which advertise or contain advertisements for alcohol Sites used by botnet herders for command and control of infected Informational sites such as essays on drunk driving or court machines. Sites that known malware and spyware connects to transcripts WILL NOT be added to this category. for command and control by cyber criminals. These sites are differentiated from the Malcode category to enable reporting on Sample sites: www.budweiser.com, www.samueladams.com, potentially infected computers inside the network. www.jackdaniels.com Chat Animals/Pets Sites offering chatrooms and chat services as well as Chat sites Sites that provide information or promote animal/pet care, breed, accessed via a webbrowser, excluding the following: veterinary care, boarding, adoption, and care info. • Instant Messaging Sample sites: www.petsonsale.com, www.westminsterkennelclub.org, www.2buyhorses.com • Chat logs • IRC client downloads Art • IRC channel listings or channel information Non-commercial websites that promote, exhibit, and/or display Sample sites: www.chatweb.net, www.chat-avenue.com, works of art, artists, and provide instruction on the creation of art www.javachatrooms.net excluding the following: • Explicit Art Child Pornography • Sites for artists, art galleries, or museums Sites that promote, discuss or portray children in sexual acts • Sites containing art instruction, graphics tutorials, and art and activity or the abuse of children. Pornographic sites that schools (which should also be saved in Education) advertise or imply the depiction of underage models and that do not have a U.S.C. 2257 declaration on their main page. Sample sites: www.lacma.org, www.guggenheim.org, As of March 13, 2007, all sites categorized as child porn are www.metmuseum.org actually saved into the URL Library in the Porn category and are automatically submitted to the Internet Watch Foundation for Bad Reputation Domains legal verification as child pornography (http://www.iwf.org.uk/). Sites that appear on one or more security industry blacklists for If the IWF agrees that a site and/or any of its hosted pages are repeated bad behavior, including hosting malware and phishing child pornography, they add it those URLs to their master list. sites, generating spam, or hosting content linked to by spam The master list is downloaded nightly and saved into the URL email. Library in the Child Porn category. Banner/Web Ads Banner ads served from third party servers and URLs that track online analytics and/or website traffic for marketing report purpose. Sample sites: www.coremetrics.com, www.siteminer.com, www.valueclickmedia.com, www.mointel.com RETURN TO FIRST PAGE Database categories Comics Dubious/Unsavory Sites that distribute, display, discuss and promote comics, comic Sites of a questionable legal or ethical nature. Sites which books, and cartoons. These include on-line cartoons and official promote or distribute products, information, or devices whose use websites of comic strips. may be deemed unethical or, in some cases, illegal. • Web comics • Warez • Flash/Online animations and cartoons • Unlicensed mp3 downloads • Comic publishers (should also be saved in literature) • Radar detectors Sample sites: www.dccomics.com, www.marvel.com, • Street racing www.xkcd.com Sample sites: www.thepayback.com, www.strangereports.com Community Organizations Dynamic DNS Servers Sites of non-profit, charity, and community involvement Domains used by Dynamic DNS service providers for IP aliasing. organizations. Domains in this category should almost always be wildcarded, • I.e., YMCA, March of Dimes, Big Brothers/Sisters, Boy/Girl as they are typically assigned to end users with a customizable Scouts, etc. sub-domain. Sample sites: www.habitat.org, www.pointsoflight.org, Sample sites: www.dynip.com, www.changeip.com, no-ip.info www.national.unitedway.org Edge Content Servers/Infrastructure Criminal Skills Sites that host images, media and static secondary content Sites that promote crime or illegal activity such as credit card for web sites. Sites in this category represent Internet number generation, illegal surveillance and murder. “infrastructure”; they provide web companies with high-bandwidth • Sites which commercially sell surveillance equipment will not delivery of arbitrary content. Typically, this content is never be saved. directly accessed by the end user. The user’s web browser automatically accesses these sites based on links embedded in the page of the original web site. Dating/Personals Sample sites: edgefcs.net, speedera.net, akamai.net Contains those websites that are related to personal ads, dating sites, dating services, relationships, introductions, etc. Education • Personal ads, dating services, dating tips, “how-to find a mate” sites Websites of schools, learning centers, universities, and trade schools. Sites that promote and discuss materials and • Sites which promote introductions for purposes of finding information that aid in teaching. friends or other relationships • Teaching institutions/workshops/technical institutes • Sites for escort services should be saved in Porn. • Teaching aids, such as lesson planning guides Sample sites: www.friendfinder.com, www.match.com, www.eharmony.com • Teacher supplies (should also be saved in shopping) • Career development education Domain Landing • .edu sites Registered hosted pages with no significant appreciable content Sample sites: www.harvard.edu, www.usc.edu, www.bryman.edu other than current owner info, solicitation for URL buyers, and or links to seller info. Educational Games Sample sites: www.234aa.info, www.mt50ad.com, Sites that offer games related to education such as reading, www.mbakery.com spelling, math, etc. • Developmental games • Games with educational value Sample sites: www.aplusmath.com, www.discoveryschools.com, funschool.kaboose.com RETURN TO FIRST PAGE Database categories Employment Fitness Sites geared toward job seekers, such as online job bulletin Sites promoting and discussing exercise, yoga, health clubs, boards, classified