Fortinet 100A - Manual (Page 359)

FortiGuard categories
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16. Weapons Sites that provide information about, promote, or
support the sale of weapons and related items.Sport
Hunting and Gun Clubs -- Sites that provide
information about or directories of gun clubs and
similar groups, including war-game and paintball
facilities.
Potentially Non-productive
17. Advertisement
Sites that provide advertising graphics or other ad
content files.
18. Brokerage and Trading Sites that support active trading of securities and
management of investments.
19. Freeware and Software Download Sites whose primary function is to provide freeware
and software downloads.
20. Games Sites that provide information about or promote
electronic games, video games, computer games,
role-playing games, or online games. Includes
sweepstakes and giveaways.
21. Internet Communication Web Chat -- Sites that host Web chat services or
that support or provide information about chat via
HTTP or IRC.Instant Messaging -- Sites that enable
instant messaging. Message Boards and Clubs --
Sites for online personal and business clubs,
discussion groups, message boards, and list
servers; includes 'blogs' and 'mail magazines.'
Digital post cards - Sites for sending/viewing digital
post cards.
22. Pay to Surf Sites that pay users to view Web sites,
advertisements, or email
23. Web-based Email Sites that host Web-based email.
Potentially Bandwidth Consuming
24. File Sharing and Storage
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing -- Sites that provide client
software to enable peer-to-peer file sharing and
transfer. Personal Network Storage and Backup --
Sites that store personal files on Internet servers for
backup or exchange.
25. Streaming Media MP3 -- Sites that support downloading of MP3 or
other sound files or that serve as directories of such
sites.
Internet Radio and TV -- Sites whose primary
purpose is to provide radio or TV programming on
the Internet.
Internet Telephony -- Sites that enable users to
make telephone calls via the Internet or to obtain
information or software for that purpose.
Potentially Security Violating
26. Malicious Web Sites
Sites that contain code that may intentionally modify
end-user systems without their consent and cause
harm.
27. Spyware Sites or pages that download software that, without
the user's knowledge, generates http traffic (other
than simple user identification and validation).
Table 33: FortiGuard categories
Category name Description