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Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

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6<br />

<strong>Web</strong> filtering<br />

Filtering web objects<br />

The sections of this chapter explain these activities in detail for individual filtering functions. They<br />

assume that you have read the Rule and Rule Sets chapter, which provides general information on<br />

handling rules and how they use filter lists and modules.<br />

For more information, see Rules and rule sets and the sections on individual filtering functions, such as<br />

Virus and malware filtering, URL filtering, and others.<br />

For adapting user messages, see User messages.<br />

Functions for filtering web objects<br />

You can use the following functions to filter web objects on the appliance:<br />

• Virus and malware filtering — You can filter web objects and block them if they are infected by<br />

viruses and other malware, using the Antimalware module, which can apply different methods when<br />

scanning objects.<br />

• URL filtering — You can filter URLs individually and per category and block inappropriate or<br />

malicious content, using filter lists and information that the URL Filter module retrieves from the<br />

global Global Threat Intelligence system.<br />

• Media type filtering — You can filter media types and block text, audio, image, streaming, or other<br />

media, using appropriate filter lists for upload and download.<br />

• HTML filtering — You can filter HTML pages and have embedded objects, including Java and Visual<br />

Basic scripts, ActiveX controls, and others, removed from them.<br />

• Global whitelisting — You can enter URLs onto a global whitelist to ensure the users of your<br />

network can access them.<br />

• SSL scanning — You can have SSL-secured requests inspected to make them available for further<br />

filtering and block objects if they are not sufficiently secured by a valid certificate.<br />

You can also use functions that do not themselves filter web objects, but support the filtering process:<br />

• Progress indication — You can show users the progress made in downloading objects.<br />

• Next-hop proxies — You can use next-hop proxies for routing requests to their destinations.<br />

For more information, see the sections on individual filtering and supporting functions, for example,<br />

URL filtering or Progress Indication.<br />

170 <strong>McAfee</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Gateway</strong> <strong>7.1.5</strong> <strong>Product</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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