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stupid content filtering errors

A loooong itme ago(i think it was v5) i psoted about some content filter errors that just don't make sense. Well here's another:

voxday.blogspot.com
classified as....Illegal Drugs

hello? who is running the classification system??

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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 19 years ago

similar problem, vic police (vic.gov.au) classified crime site.
ausdoctors classified as unclassified

my web security has been shot full of holes while trying allow legitimate sites through.

Ian M
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0 SilverOne over 19 years ago in reply to RFCat_vk_01

Isn't this still Cobion?

Taken over by IBM.http://www.iss.net/trademarks.html
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0 koma over 19 years ago in reply to SilverOne

Use this link to test a website:

http://filterdb.iss.net/urlcheck/
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0 Simon Shaw over 19 years ago in reply to koma

One of the reasons why I dont have a web security license..
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0 andreas over 19 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

It is still Cobion, and you can use koma's link above not only to check the categorization but also to submit change requests if you think that the categorization is not correct.

If you think about the size and speed of change of the 'net it's self-evident that it is not possible to categorize everything manually. Doing this work automatically is error-prone. If you find an error, submit a change request. It won't take longer than complaining about it here.
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0 NimmdirKeks over 19 years ago in reply to andreas

Normaly takes less then 24 hours till they update the db, after an request.
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0 William Warren over 19 years ago in reply to NimmdirKeks

That's nice..considering my custom but solution i have been sending to clients has a much higher accuracy rate and doesn't have half the system reqs of astaro right now. V7 is still a problem. I'll keep it on a testing hard drive(like i did v5) and once a new up2date is out i'll try it again..[:)]

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0 lkar over 19 years ago in reply to NimmdirKeks

I have similar problems. For example when I am trying to access go.microsoft.com, site blocks as category Nature / Environment / Animals. I have confirmed to the astaro url tester that go.microsoft.com is listed as software / hardware vendors. In addition www.gwool.com is not blocked at all, while it should be categorized as ****ography according to Astaro URL tester.

How filtering actually works? How can I refresh the astaro cache regarding to CFFD? How filtering is updated?
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0 lkar over 19 years ago in reply to NimmdirKeks

I have similar problems. For example when I am trying to access go.microsoft.com, site blocks as category Nature / Environment / Animals. I have confirmed to the astaro url tester that go.microsoft.com is listed as software / hardware vendors. In addition www.gwool.com is not blocked at all, while it should be categorized as ****ography according to Astaro URL tester.

How filtering actually works? How can I refresh the astaro cache regarding to CFFD? How filtering is updated?
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