Site Rating 

Introduction 

Use GFI WebMonitor Site Rating feature together with the ISA Server 

web access blocking capabilities, to achieve automatic proactive 

blocking of sites which contain objectionable adult material such as 

pornographic images, candid scenes, offensive words and links to 

adult sites.  

Figure 4   Site Rating process flow 

GFI WebMonitor can check for adult content in the URLs which users 

want to access. This is achieved by querying Yahoo! SafeSearch

TM

which is an online database that classifies and categorizes various 

sites on the Internet. When a user requests access to a site, GFI 

WebMonitor will query the Yahoo! SafeSearch

TM

 database for the 

Content Type held by that target URL. If the online web filter classifies 

the site as having adult content, GFI WebMonitor will add the target 

URL to the  Adult  Destination Set on the ISA Server. If the ISA Server 

is configured to block access to the sites listed in the  Adult  

Destination/URL Set the user will be denied access to that site.  

NOTE 1: GFI WebMonitor will retain the classification of the last 3000 

sites accessed. Every time a request to a target site is made, GFI 

WebMonitor will check if the requested URL is listed in its internal 

GFI WebMonitor 3 

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