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Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

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

URL filtering 6<br />

The Block action also has settings. These specify a message that is sent to a user who is affected by the<br />

action.<br />

For this URL blocking rule, the URL Blocked settings are specified, which means that the message<br />

mentions the category that a requested URL belongs to as the reason for the blocking.<br />

URL Filtering (rule set)<br />

This section describes the URL Filtering library rule set.<br />

For general information on understanding and handling rules, see Rules and rule sets.<br />

Library rule set — URL Filtering<br />

Criteria — Always<br />

Cycles — Requests (and IM)<br />

The rule set contains the following rules:<br />

Allow URLs that match in URL WhiteList<br />

URL matches in list URLWhiteList –> Stop Rule Set<br />

The rule uses the URL property to check whether a given URL is on the specified whitelist. If it is,<br />

processing of the rule set stops and the blocking rules that follow the whitelisting rule are not<br />

processed.<br />

You can use this rule to exempt URLs from filtering to make sure they are available to the users of<br />

your network and do not get blocked by any of the following blocking rules. Whitelisting also<br />

increases performance because it avoids the effort of retrieving information about the respective<br />

URLs.<br />

Block URLs that match in URL BlockList<br />

URL matches in list URL BlockList –> Block — Statistics.Counter.Increment<br />

(“BlockedByURLFilter”,1)<br />

The rules uses the URL property to check whether a given URL is on the specified blocking list. If it<br />

is, processing of all rules stops and the request for access to the URL is not passed on to the<br />

appropriate web server. Access to it is blocked this way.<br />

The action settings specify a message to the requesting user.<br />

The rule also uses an event to count blocking due to virus and malware infections. The event<br />

parameters specify the counter that is incremented and the size of the increment. The event<br />

settings specify the settings of the Statistics module, which executes the counting.<br />

Enable SafeSearchEnforcer<br />

Always –> Continue — Enable SafeSearchEnforcer<br />

The rule enables the SafeSearchEnforcer, which is an additional module for filtering access to web<br />

sites with adult content.<br />

The enabling is done by executing an event. The settings of the module are specified with the<br />

event.<br />

Processing continues with the next rule.<br />

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