4.2.1.1.1.1 Adult Sexually Explicit
This category includes sites for adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos; child
pornography and pedophilia (including the IWF list); adult services including video-conferencing,
escort services, and strip clubs; erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts; explicit
cartoons and animation; online groups, including newsgroups and forums that are sexually explicit
in nature; sexually-oriented or erotic sites with full or partial nudity; depictions or images of sexual
acts, including with animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner; sexually exploitive or
sexually violent text or graphics; bondage, fetishes, genital piercing; naturist sites that feature
nudity; and erotic or fetish photography, which depicts nudity.
Note: We do not include sites regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted
diseases (except those with graphic examples).
4.2.1.1.1.2 Advertisements and Pop-ups
This category includes sites of banner ad servers, sites with pop-up advertisements, and sites
with known adware.
Important: Blocking Advertisements and Pop-ups also blocks content that appears behind
interstitial pages, pages of advertising that appear prior to the loading of a requested content
URL. In blocking these pages, the content that is behind them is also blocked.
Note: Sophos’s advanced categorization data uses the most current technical definition for
Adware, and thus recognizes the difference between non-malicious adware, such as "cookies"
and more serious Spyware.
4.2.1.1.1.3 Alcohol and Tobacco
This category includes sites that promote or distribute alcohol or tobacco products for free or for
a charge.
4.2.1.1.1.4 Arts
This category includes sites for museums, galleries, artist sites (sculpture, photography, etc.),
performing arts (theater, vaudeville, opera, symphonies, etc.), dance companies, studios, and
training; book reviews and promotions; and variety magazines and poetry.
4.2.1.1.1.5 Blogs and Forums
This category includes sites of weblogs (blogs), newsgroups, and opinion or discussion forums.
4.2.1.1.1.6 Business
This category includes general business corporate web sites, international and multi-national
large general business corporate sites, business associations, and basic business sites, such as
FedEx, that enable organizations to manage their necessary daily business tasks.
Note: Business sites that fit more appropriately into another related category, such as Finance
or Travel, will be categorized in those categories.
4.2.1.1.1.7 Chat
This category includes sites of web-based chat and instant message servers.
Note: This category filters HTTP traffic only.
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