Web Site Filtering - THOMSON TG587n v2 Setup And User Manual

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Web Site Filtering

Introduction
The Thomson Gateway allows you to deny access to specific web sites.
Access Denied page
When a user tries to access a page that is being blocked, the following page is displayed:
Address-based filtering
With address-based filtering (or URL-filtering) you can
www.porn.com).
But as you know, the Internet consists of a large number of web sites, and that number still increases every
day. This makes it almost impossible to keep this list up to date.
To solve this problem Thomson Gateway introduced content based filtering.
Content-based filtering
With content-based filtering you can
pornography) instead of their URL. This way, you only need to select the appropriate categories and the
content category server takes care of the rest. This content category server is updated at regular intervals.
Combining the two filters
Address-based filtering has priority over content-based
specific category (for example Finance / Investment), you can still access (netbanking.mybank.com) provided
you create a rule to allow access to that URL (for example netbanking.mybank.com).
Activating content-based filtering
Before you can use content-based filtering you must first activate it by purchasing a license key at your
Internet Service Provider (ISP) or by activating the 30-day trial.
Proceed as follows:
1 Browse to the Thomson Gateway
2 On the Toolbox menu, click Web Site Filtering.
3 In the Pick a task list, click Activate Web Filtering License.
4 The Web Filtering Activation page appears. Under License Type, select:
E-DOC-CTC-20090105-0001 v0.1
block web sites based on their address
block web sites based on their content category
filtering. This means that when you are blocking a
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