Overview

Figure 1. Example Site Categories Page

The Site Categories page (Fig. 1) allows you to enable or disable Mako Guardian for the selected Mako and to manage Site Category rules that can be used to allow or deny access to groups of websites. You must have a valid Mako Guardian license in order to use Mako Guardian. See the Licenses documentation for details

Enable/Disable Mako Guardian

The Mako Guardian service is disabled by default. To enable it, check the Enable Mako Guardian checkbox. To disable it, uncheck the checkbox.

Mako Guardian must be enabled before you can use the other fields on this page.

Enable/Disable Mako Spyware Protection

Mako Spyware Protection is designed to complement existing Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software and should be used in conjunction with such software for maximum protection.

The Mako Spyware Protection service is disabled by default. To enable it, check the Enable Mako Spyware Protection checkbox. To disable it, uncheck the checkbox.

Enable/Disable Secure Website Protection

Secure Website Protection will only check HTTPS requests on port 443 unless otherwise configured. Mako Guardian can ONLY filter HTTPS content on phrases within a domain name. If your key phrases do not contain phrases within an HTTPS domain name, no filtering (neither “Deny” nor “Allow”) will be performed on the content.

For example, if you deny content with the phrase “example” then content from https://www.secure.content.com/example.html will be allowed, as “example” is not in the domain name, while all content from https://www.secure.example.com/ will be denied.

The Secure Website Protection service is disabled by default. To enable it, check the Enable Secure Website Protection checkbox. To disable it, uncheck the checkbox.

Add Site Category Rule

Figure 2. Add Category Form

Use the Add Category form (Fig. 2) to create a new Site Category rule for the selected Mako.

Group

Choose the Group to which the rule will apply. The default value is “Everyone.”

If you have not created any Groups, “Everyone” will be your only option. To create new Groups, click the “Group Setup” link. See the Groups documentation for details.

Time

Choose the Time to which the rule will apply. The default value is “Anytime.”

If you have not created any Times, “Anytime” will be your only option. To create new Times, click the “Time Setup” link. See the Times documentation for details.

Action

Choose whether to allow or deny traffic for the selected category of websites. This is set to “Deny” by default. Click the “Allow” radio button to allow the traffic instead.

Add Button

To create a new Site Category rule with these settings, click the “Add” button.

View Site Category Rules

Figure 3. Example Site Category Rules List

The Site Category Rules list (Fig. 3) allows you to view and manage existing Site Category rules for the selected Mako.

Filters

The list is filtered based on the Group and Time to which each rule applies.

Choose a Group value and/or a Time value using the fields at the top of the list, then click the “Show” button to apply the filter values to the list.

A message at the bottom of the list indicates the filter values that have been applied to the list.

Columns

Category – Site Category to which the rule applies
Description – describes the Site Category
Action – allow/deny button
Delete – delete button

Actions

Allow/Deny Site Category Rule

To change whether a rule allows or denies traffic, use its toggle button in the Action column.

Clicking a gray checkmark / red prohibition icon button will change the rule to allow traffic.

Clicking a green checkmark / gray prohibition icon button will change the rule to deny traffic.

Delete Site Category Rule

To delete a Site Category rule, click its “X” icon button in the Delete column.

Use Default Site and Phrase Category Rules

Figure 4. Default Site Category Rules

If you want to generate default rules for both Site Categories and Phrase Categories, click the “Use Default Site and Phrase Categories” button. This will open a confirmation panel asking you to confirm the change. If you are certain you want to make this change, click the “OK” button. Any user-defined Site Category rules and user-defined Phrase Category rules will be permanently lost.

The default rules generated for Site Categories (Fig. 4) are listed below.

Deny “ads” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”
Deny “dialers” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”
Deny “hacking” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”
Deny “porn” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”
Deny “proxy” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”
Deny “warez” Site Category for “Everyone” during “Anytime”

See the Phrase Categories documentation to see the rules that will be generated there.

Custom Sites rules and Custom Phrases rules are NOT affected by this action.

Standard Site Categories

All Domains – All Domains
ads – Advert servers and banned URLs
adult – Sites containing adult material such as swearing but not porn
aggressive – Similar to violence but more promoting than depicting
antispyware – Sites that remove spyware
artnudes – Art sites containing artistic nudity
astrology – Astrology websites
banking – Banking websites
beerliquorinfo – Sites with information only on beer or liquors
beerliquorsale – Sites with beer or liquors for sale
blog – Journal/Diary websites
cellphones – stuff for mobile/cell phones
chat – Sites with chat rooms etc
childcare – Sites to do with childcare
cleaning – Sites to do with cleaning
clothing – Sites about and selling clothing
culnary – Sites about cooking et al
dating – Sites about dating
desktopsillies – Screensavers, themes and similar timewasting and potentially dangero
dialers – Sites with dialers such as those for pornography or trojans
drugs – Drug related sites
ecommerce – Sites that provide online shopping
entertainment – Sites that promote movies, books, magazine, humor
filehosting – Sites to do with filehosting
frencheducation – Sites to do with french education
gambling – Gambling sites including stocks and shares
games – Game related sites
gardening – Gardening sites
government – Military and schools etc
guns – Sites with guns
hacking – Hacking/cracking information
homerepair – Sites about home repair
hygiene – Sites about hygiene and other personal grooming related stuff
instantmessaging – Web-based messaging sites and IM client downloads
jewelry – Sites about and selling jewelry
jobsearch – Sites for finding jobs
kidstimewasting – Sites kids often waste time on
mail – Webmail and email sites
malware – Common known malware sources
marketingware – Sites about marketing products
medical – Medical websites
mixed_adult – Mixed adult content sites
naturism – Sites that contain nude pictures and/or promote a nude lifestyle
news – News sites
onlineauctions – Online auctions
onlinegames – Online gaming sites
onlinepayment – Online payment sites
personalfinance – Personal finance sites
pets – Pet sites
phishing – Sites attempting to trick people into giving out private information
porn – Pornography
proxy – Sites with proxies to bypass filters
radio – non-news related radio and television
religion – Sites promoting religion
ringtones – Sites containing ring tones, games, pictures and other
searchengines – Search engines such as google
sect – Sites about eligious groups
sexuality – Sites dedicated to sexuality, possibly including adult material
shopping – Shopping sites
socialnetworking – Social networking websites
sportnews – Sport news sites
sports – All sport sites
spysites – Sites with spyware on them
spyware – Sites who run or have spyware software to download
updatesites – Download sites for software updates, patches and anti-virus
vacation – Sites about going on holiday
violence – Sites containing violence
virusinfected – Sites who host virus infected files
warez – Sites with illegal pirate software
weapons – Sites detailing or selling weapons
weather – Weather news sites and weather related
webmail – Just webmail sites
whitelist – Contains site specifically 100% suitable for kids