Web resource content categories
The web resource content categories (hereinafter also referred to as "categories") listed below have been selected to most fully describe the blocks of data hosted by web resources, taking into account their functional and thematic features. The order in which the categories appear in this list does not reflect the relative importance or prevalence of such categories on the Internet. The category names are provisional and used solely for the purposes of Kaspersky applications and websites. The names do not necessarily reflect the meaning implied by law. One web resource can belong to several categories at once.
Adult content
This category generally includes web resources related to the sexual aspect of human relationships, philosophies, sex shops, etc. This includes content in any form or format.
Alcohol, tobacco, drugs
This category generally includes web resources that mention alcohol, drugs, or tobacco of any kind, including advertising, historical, medical and educational resources. This also includes web resources where devices for the use of these substances are described or sold.
Violence
This category includes web resources containing any photo-, video- or text materials describing acts of physical or psychological violence directed against people or cruel treatment of animals, which serve as an intended purpose of this content.
Works of art may be exceptions in this category.
Profanity, obscenity
This category includes web resources where profane language has been detected.
This category also includes web resources with linguistic and philological materials containing profanity as the subject of study.
Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics
This category includes web resources with information about weapons, explosives, and pyrotechnical products.
The term "weapons" means appliances, items, and means designed to harm the life or health of humans and animals and/or damage equipment and structures.
Job search
This category includes web resources designed to bring together employers and job seekers. This specifically includes the following:
- Websites of recruitment agencies (employment agencies and/or headhunting agencies).
- Websites of employers with descriptions of available job openings and their advantages.
- Independent portals with offers of employment from employers and recruitment agencies.
- Professional social networks that, among all else, make it possible to publish or find information about specialists who are not actively searching for employment.
Anonymizers
This category includes web resources that act as an intermediary in downloading content of other web resources using special web applications for doing the following:
- Bypass restrictions imposed by a LAN administrator on access to web addresses or IP addresses.
- Anonymously access web resources, including web resources that deliberately reject HTTP requests from certain IP addresses or their groups (for example, IP addresses grouped by country of origin).
Software, audio, video
This category generally includes web resources that provide the capability to download related files.
- Torrents
Torrent trackers and web resources that help organize their work.
- File sharing
Web resources that provide the capability for file sharing.
- Audio, video
Web resources from which you can download or view/listen to video/audio files.
Gambling, lotteries, sweepstakes
This category includes web resources offering:
- Gambling in which participants are required to make monetary contributions.
- Sweepstakes that involve betting with money.
- Lotteries that involve purchasing lottery tickets or numbers.
Internet communication
This category generally includes web resources that allow specific users (registered or not) to send personalized messages to other users. There are a number of web resources designed for communication.
- Web-based email
Web mail – exclusively login pages of an email service and mailbox pages containing emails and associated data (such as personal contacts). This category is not assigned to other web pages of an Internet service provider that also offers email service.
- Social networks
Social networks – websites designed for building, displaying, and managing contacts between persons, organizations, and governments, which require registering a user account as a condition of participation.
- Chats, forums
This category includes web chats as well as web resources designed to distribute or support instant messaging applications that enable real-time communication. It also includes forums, which are special web services for public discussion of various topics while saving the correspondence.
- Blogs
Blogs – web resources intended for a public discussion of various topics by means of special web applications, including blog platforms (websites that offer pay-for or free blog creation and maintenance services).
- Dating sites
Online dating resources that help organize dating between people, including acquaintances without sexual implications.
Online stores, banks, payment systems
This category generally includes web resources designed for any non-cash online transactions using special-purpose web applications. This also includes web resources that help rent, buy, or sell real estate.
- Online stores
Online stores and online auctions selling any goods, work or services to individuals and/or legal entities, including websites of stores that conduct sales exclusively online and online profiles of physical stores that accept online payments.
- Banks
Web resources of banks.
- Payment systems
This category includes the following web pages:
- Dedicated web pages of banks with online banking functionality, including wire (electronic) transfers between bank accounts, making bank deposits, performing currency conversion, paying for third-party services, etc.
- Web pages of e-money systems that provide access to the user's personal account.
- Cryptocurrencies and Mining
This subcategory includes websites offering services for buying and selling cryptocurrency as well as informational services concerning cryptocurrencies and mining.
Computer games
This category includes web resources devoted to computer games of various genres. This also includes gaming communities and services.
Religions, religious associations
This category includes web resources with materials on public movements, associations, and organizations with a religious ideology and/or cult in any manifestations.
News media
News portals on any topic, including social news, news aggregators, and rss newsletters.
Banners
This category includes web resources with banners. Advertising information on banners may distract users from their activities, while banner downloads increase the amount of traffic.
Regional legal restrictions
- Forbidden by laws of the Russian Federation
- Forbidden by laws of Belgium
- Forbidden by Police of Japan
Web resources provided upon agreement with the Japanese police only for products of the Japanese market.