How To Activate Kerio Web Filter

Using Kerio Command Web Filter

Kerio Control Web Filter rates web page content. For this purpose it uses a dynamic worldwide database which includes URLs and classification of web pages.

Whenever users effort to access a web page, Kerio Control sends a request on the page rating. According to the classification of the page users are either immune or denied to access the page.

Notation

Kerio Control Web Filter requires a special license. Unless Kerio Control includes this module, it behaves equally a trial version simply (this means that information technology is automatically disabled afterwards 30 days from the Kerio Control installation and options in the Applications and Web Categories tab will not be available).

Enabling Kerio Command Web Filter

In the administration interface, go to Content Filter > Applications and Spider web Categories.
Select Enable Kerio Control Web Filter.
Select Permit authenticated users to report miscategorized URLs If the user believes that the folio is in a wrong category (which makes Kerio Control block access to the page), they tin suggest a change to the developers. All suggestions are logged in the Security log. If a folio is still blocked after couple of days, add together the page to the URL whitelist.
Click Apply.

Testing URLs

In the administration interface, it is possible to test URL categorization. It is then possible to make recategorization suggestions on the effect folio, if desired.

In section Content Filter, get to Applications and Web Categories.
Blazon in the URL and click Test URL.
In the URL Categorization dialog, check if the category is correct.

Creating a URL whitelist

If Kerio Command Web Filter blocks correct URL, you tin add it to the special listing of enabled URLs:

In section Content Filter, go to Applications and Web Categories.
Click Add together.
Type URL and description of the website. The following items can exist specified:

server name (e.m. world wide web.kerio.com). Server name represents whatsoever URL at a corresponding server,
address of a particular webpage (e.g. world wide web.kerio.com/index.html),
URL using wildcard matching (east.grand. *.ker?o.*). An asterisk stands for any number of characters (even zero), a *.ker?o.* question-mark represents only one symbol.

Save the settings.

Using Spider web Filter in URL rules

Whenever Kerio Control processes a URL rule that requires nomenclature of pages, Kerio Control Spider web Filter is activated. The usage volition be amend understood through the following instance that describes a rule denying all users to access pages containing task offers:

In the assistants interface, go to Content Filter.
On the Content Rules tab, enable the predefined rule Kerio Control Web Filter categories and applications.
Double-click the Detected content column and click Add > Applications and Web Categories.
Select the Task Search rating category.
Click OK twice.
On the Content Rules tab, click Utilize.

URL rules are described in more details in a special article: Configuring the Content Filter.