Thanks for the details, Craig.

I also had a look through Secure Computing's wikipedia page[1] and a
more general category[2].  From what that says and from what you
describe, it appears that SmartFilter allows/blocks content based
solely on URL.  Is that correct?  Or does SmartFilter do on-the-fly
content filtering also?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Computing
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-control_software

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Craig Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Work is using a service called Smartfilter from Secure Computing. It
> categorizes mostly by site but does both site and IP address. It also
> categorizes by sections of sites but not necessarily individual pages. Also,
> each site may have up to three categories.
> For example (and this is just hypothetical)
> http://theonion.com may be categorized as news, humor, profanity
> http://theonion.com/downloads/ may be categorized as media downloads
> http://theonion.com/article/nastymalware.aspx might be catagorized as
> malicous/malware
> We may block profanity and malware so we would block two of the three sites
> above even though we allow news and humor (as examples).
> Hope that helps.

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