Web control
The Web control section enables you to configure settings that protect your company from the risk of legal liability. Web control can regulate access to websites that violate intellectual property rights. The goal is to prevent employees from accessing pages with inappropriate or harmful content or pages that may have a negative impact on productivity.
Enable web control
If enabled, web control lets you create rules to control access to websites based on categories, URL address or URL groups.
Rules
The Rules editor window displays existing URL rules or Category-based rules. The list of rules contains several descriptions of rules such as Name, URL/Category, Access rights or Severity.
Click Add or Edit to manage a rule. Click Copy to create a new rule with pre-defined options used for another selected rule. By pressing command and clicking, you can select multiple rules and delete all selected rules. The Enabled check box disables or enables a rule; this can be useful if you do not want to delete a rule permanently because it might be used in the future.
Rules are sorted in the order determining their priority, with higher priority rules on top. To change the priority of a rule, select the rule and click the arrow button to increase or decrease the rule priority. Click the double arrow to move the rule to the top or bottom of the list.
More details regarding adding web control rules are described in the Add web control rules chapter.
Blocked webpage message/graphic
Blocked webpage message and Blocked webpage graphic fields enable you to easily customize the displayed message when a website is blocked. An example of a blocked web page message would be:
The webpage %URL_OR_CATEGORY% was blocked because it is considered inappropriate or with harmful content. Please contact your administrator for details. |
Variable |
Description |
|---|---|
%CATEGORY% |
Blocked Web control category. |
%URL_OR_CATEGORY% |
Blocked Web control website or category (depends on the Web control blocking rule). |
%STR_GOBACK% |
"Go Back" button value. |
%product_name% |
Name of the ESET product (ESET Endpoint Security) |
%product_version% |
Version of the ESET product. |
An example of a blocked web page graphics will be:
https://help.eset.com/tools/indexPage/products/antitheft.png |
The image size (width/height) will scale automatically if the size is too big.