Æs web access filter incorporates four default filters (employee filter, teen filter, kids filter and default filter), and each of these filters is associated to several content categories. When one of these filters is enabled, access will be restricted to web pages that fall into the content categories associated to the filter in question.
allows you to customize the default filters to your specific needs, or even create new filters. In both cases you will have to indicate which content categories you wish to associate to the filter in question.
In this section you will find detailed information about the content categories that can be associated to the web content filter:
Nudity: this category includes websites containing the depiction of sexually explicit activity and erotic content, unsuitable for users under the age of 18 (pornography), websites with erotic material (erotic / sex), and websites containing nudity but no sexual reference (swimwear / lingerie).
Ordering: this content category will allow you to restrict access to online shops (online purchasing), as well as to auction sites and online/offline advertisements (auctions / small advertisements).
Society / Education / Religion: it allows you to restrict access to websites with content for which official organizations are responsible (governmental organizations), non-governmental organizations (ONGs), pages with information on cities, regions, countries and maps (cities / regions / countries), websites of universities, colleges, dictionaries and encyclopedias (education and enlightenment), websites of political parties (political parties) and pages with religious and spiritual content (religion and spirituality ).
Criminal and offensive activities: it allows you to restrict access to websites describing illegal activities, such as instructions for murder, manuals for bomb building, or pages containing child pornography (criminal or offensive activities).
In addition, it will also allow you to restrict access to websites containing instructions to manipulate electronic devices, data networks, password encryption and manuals for virus programming (computer crime).
Finally, from this content category you can also block access to websites with discriminatory content or to those belonging to extreme right and left-wing groups (hate and discrimination). You can also restrict access to illegal websites with software cracks and license key generators (hacking).
Games / gambling: it allows you to block access to websites of betting agencies, video games, and websites with information about games / toys.
Entertainment / culture: this content category allows you restrict access to cultural or entertainment websites: cinema and television, amusement parks and theme parks, theaters and museums, music (online radio stations, homepages of bands, record labels, etc), literature in general and websites with humorous content.
Information and communication: this content category includes websites that inform about general topics (general news, newspapers and magazines), websites that allow users to send and receive e-mail (web mail), chat in real time with other users (chat), share information about different topics with other users (newsgroups, bulletin news boards, discussion sites), send short text messages to mobile phones, download tunes and logos (SMS, mobile phones fun applications), send digital postcards and find information on the Internet (search engines / web catalogs / portals).
IT: adding this category to the web content filter you will be able to block access to websites of producers of hardware and software vendors (software and hardware vendors / distributors), web hosting and Internet service providers (web hosting), websites with information about security, privacy and data protection (information security sites), websites that allow users to translate the entire content of a website into another language (URL translation sites), and sites that allow users to view other websites anonymously (anonymous proxies).
Drugs: With this category you will be able to block access to websites containing information about illegal drugs (illegal drugs), pages that deal with alcohol as a recreational activity (alcohol), as well as websites related to tobacco and smoking. Finally, in this content category you will also be able to restrict access to websites of self-help groups and help for addiction problems (self-help / addiction).
Lifestyle: adding this category to the web content filter you will be able to restrict access to websites that promote interpersonal relationships (dating / relationship), websites about bars, restaurants, discotheques, and fast food restaurants (restaurants / bars), websites of travel agencies, hotels, holiday resorts, airlines, railway lines, car rental (travel), websites about model agencies, fashion, cosmetics and jewelry, websites about sport competitions, sport teams and federations (sports), websites about property markets, furniture markets, and prefabricated houses (building / residence / furniture) and finally, websites about environmental protection, pets, etc (nature / environment).
Private homepages: this category includes private websites and homepage servers.
Job search: adding this content category to the web content filter, you will be able to restrict access to websites of job agencies, labor exchanges, temporary work, etc.
Finance / Investing: this content category includes websites displaying stock exchange rates (brokerage) websites about real estate, insurance and construction financing (investing), and online banking (banking).
Weapons: it includes websites dealing with all type of firearms, blank firing guns and knives.
Medicine: it allows you to restrict access to websites of hospitals, doctors, drugstores, psychology, nursing, health food stores and medicine in general (health, recreation and nutrition).
Abortion: adding this category to the web content filter you will be able to restrict access to websites about abortion.