Actiontec MI424WR (GigE) User Manual

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Chapter 7 Parental Controls

4. Enter a name for the new policy in the “Name” text box.

5. Enter a description of the new policy in the “Description” text box.

6. Select the content filtering check boxes that represent content to be blocked in

the “Blocked Categories” section.

7. Click OK to save the new policy.

Selecting a category will automatically select all its sub-categories and deselecting
a category will automatically deselect its sub-categories. To make a more refined
selection of filtering options, click on the “+” next to each category to display a
list of its sub-categories. A click on the resulting “-” will revert the category to its
previous display. Clicking the “-” of a category will only be possible if all its sub-
categories are either checked or unchecked.

Websites and URL Filtering

Additional filtering (by website

URL

or

URL

keyword) can be done using the

“Websites and

URL

Filtering” section of the Policy Filtering screen. To do this:

1. Select either Block Access to These Websites and URL Keywords or Allow

Access to These Websites and URL Keywords from the drop-down list.

2. In the “Specify a list of Websites separated by spaces” text box, enter the

URL

s

of the websites to be blocked or accessed. Separate each discrete

URL

with a

space.

3. In the “Specify a list of

URL

Keywords separated by spaces” text box, enter the

URL

keywords to be blocked or accessed.

4. Click OK to save. If “Block Access to These Websites and

URL

Keywords” was

chosen in step 1, all websites listed and all other websites with the keywords
listed in their

URL

s will be blocked. If “Allow Access to These Websites and

URL

Keywords” was chosen in step 1, only the websites listed and other web-

sites with the keywords listed in their

URL

s will be allowed to be accessed.

Applying the Filtering Policy

Once different filtering policies have been created, either define a default policy
that will be applied to all networked computers, or apply different policies to indi-
vidual computers separately.

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