Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v3
4-6 Content Filtering
v3.0, December 2005
• Parental Controls Access Profile: The Parental Controls Policy is the same for both Per-User
and General mode. The Parental Controls Policy has five predefined blocking categories and
one custom category. The categories are:
– General
–PG13
– Young Adult
– No Restrictions
–Custom
By default, the General category is selected, this blocks all of the 12 categories listed under the
Potentially Offensive heading. (Note: When manually selecting the categories from the
Potentially Offensive section, the Custom menu item will automatically be selected)
• Parental Controls Categories: Choose which categories of Web sites to block.Options include:
– Adult/Mature Content: Sites that contain material of an adult nature that does not
necessarily contain excessive violence, sexual content, or nudity. These sites include very
profane or vulgar content and sites that are not appropriate for children.
– Alcohol/Tobacco: Sites that promote or offer for the sale alcohol/tobacco products, or
provide the means to create them. Also includes sites that glorify, tout, or otherwise
encourage the consumption of alcohol/tobacco. Does not include sites that sell alcohol or
tobacco as a subset of other products.
– Gambling: Sites where a user can place a bet or participate in a betting pool (including
lotteries) online. Also includes sites that provide information, assistance,
recommendations, or training on placing bets or participating in games of chance. Does
not include sites that sell gambling related products or machines. Also does not include
sites for offline casinos and hotels (as long as those sites do not meet one of the above
requirements).
– Hacking/Proxy Avoidance: Sites providing information on illegal or questionable access
to or the use of communications equipment/software, or provide information on how to
bypass proxy server features or gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses the proxy
server.
– Illegal Drugs: Sites that promote, offer, sell, supply, encourage or otherwise advocate the
illegal use, cultivation, manufacture, or distribution of drugs, pharmaceuticals,
intoxicating plants or chemicals and their related paraphernalia.
– Illegal/Questionable: Sites that advocate or give advice on performing illegal acts such as
service theft, evading law enforcement, fraud, burglary techniques and plagiarism. Also
includes sites that provide or sell questionable educational materials, such as term papers.