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Bad Website Not Categorized in Web Filter?!

Hello there,

I want to have this issue discussed:

Some of our students access this page today: My Lazy Sundays!

So I blacklisted it in the according web filter profile.

But I was curious - Is it just to new to be categorized as "****ography" or not?

So I wen to: https://www.trustedsource.org/?p=mcafee
Chose "McAfee SmartFilter XL" and looked up nobrain.dk

Result:

Categorization in URL Filter database version '30503'

  URL Status Categorization Reputation
  My Lazy Sundays! Categorized URL - Malicious Sites
- ****ography
- Malicious Downloads
High Risk

But I wanted to know whether OUR web filter database is just not that up to date. 
I don't know how to test an URL on the Astaro directly (to emulate a student without a PC) so I searched the Internet and found:

https://www.astaro.com/index.php/tool/urlreport

I entered the URL again and it says:

For Astaro Security Gateway V7:
The URL 'nobrain.dk' did not return any category matches.

We are using Astaro V.8.201

So either I got the wrong testing site or a not updated filter database.

HOW can I ENSURE that...
... my web filter database is up to date?
... that the URL that I test shows the correct result of OUR Astaro being used?

Where can I test an URL anyway?

THANK YOU in advance!
--Uwe


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