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Phishing protection is great, and I use some of the adult site categories, but I'd like more options, like gambling, violence and especially malware and other stuff which will harm my computer (my eyes can take it).
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This would be a great feature if the community updated it. I doubt the OpenDNS staff has the personnel to handle this kind of thing. Really what it sounds like is creating a system like SmartFilter / WebSense at the DNS level which could work great. But a ton of work and what one person blocks, another person might not.
I am sure they have some good ideas up their sleeves, like they have done with PhishTank. But it good thinking, could not speak for them.
The community voting thing sounds good, but it would be hard to depend on other people having the same definition of the category I do. For instance, I view sites that offer online Java or Flash games to be "Games" sites I would like to block, but other sites that are news forums _about_ games (i.e. PS3/Xbox, etc.) to be very different.
written by eesforjobs 647 days ago
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Category filtering is an excellent idea. Government and Education should be added as distinct categories. Whitelisting a domain should help those users who need to specify a domain they would allow within their organization.
Agree with person who wants a malware/spyware category to block. Doing this on another device we use reduced client issues dramatically. Well worth the occasional false positive.
Would be useful to block 'free webspace websites' like angelfire, geocities, homestead.com, etc.
Also it would be useful to be able to whitelist categories as well as blacklist them, so we could then build up databases of other types of web sites which would allow users to black or whitelist them as desired, to enable a more versatile filtering mechanism...
I'd like to see Spam added as a catagory . . . for those of us who refuse to deal with ANY spamvertized site. I'd put EVERY penis pill site I run across in the database.
I too am missing several categories:
- Malware/Spyware (isn't Phising or Adware)
- Scams (Pyramid schemes, Ponzi-schemes, HYIP, 419, etc)
- Pornography split into soft / hard. Soft Pornography may be acceptable in some settings and is distinctly different from hardcore.
- Child Pornography; I can imagine this is already blocked by default, but there is no way to report it without an appropriate category.
- Hijacked domains. (shareaza.com for example)
- Parked domains that only show ads
- Education; seems a very valid category.
- Government, Politics, Environment, Non-Profit, International Organisations (UN, etc) seem valid categories too.
I just ran into mail.google.com blocked as an Adult site. What's up with that?
mail.google.com is tagged as Instant messaging, as well as webmail. This could be why is is blocked.
a pop up/ads blocking catergory would be great
Go to http://www.opendns.com/community/domaintagging/submit/ to submit domains OR suggest categories.
The first idea in the hall of fame :)
"Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas"
Warez and malware/spyware categories for sure!
It's encouraging to see that many of the categories suggested here (posted 40-50 days ago) have been added. However, I don't understand the sense of priority reflected in the categories established thus far.
There a specific category breakout for 'lingerie/bikini'... yet sites to be tagged as 'violence' (depicting, or promoting violence) would currently need to be pigeonholed into 'weapons' or 'hate/discrimination' categories.
The pigeonholing attempts won't work -- I've encountered domain submissions in the vote list where someone has tagged mom-n-pop karate schools for vote under WEAPONS. Naw, recreation/excercise might be a suitable category; 'weapons' certainly is not suitable. So... the submitter wasted his time submitting the entry to a pigeonholed category, and I waste my time by reviewing it then regrettably voting 'no' because the entry seems mis-categorized.
I do not think OpenDNS will create more category because it is in excess. Try Kaspersky Internet sercurity, and you will see. It is less than you think but it is enough and really powerful.
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Would be great - makes OpenDNS just as good (if not more) as any leading software service. Could sleep safe to night knowing that all is safe on the network.