User Manual

Reference: Configuration options
Note
The Web filter is ignored for entries in the list of excluded URLs under Web
Protection > Scan > Exceptions.
Note
Spam URLs are URLs sent with spam emails. The Fraud / Deception category
covers web pages with “Subscription Expires” and other offers of services
whose costs are hidden by the provider.
Exceptions
These options allow you to set exceptions based on MIME types (content types for the
transferred data) and file types for URLs (Internet addresses) for scanning by Web
Protection. The MIME types and URLs specified are ignored by Web Protection, i.e. that
data is not scanned for viruses and malware when it is transferred to your computer
system. (Options available in expert mode only.)
MIME types skipped by Web Protection
In this field you can select the MIME types (content types for the transferred data) to be
ignored by Web Protection during scanning.
File types/MIME types skipped by Web Protection (user-defined)
All MIME types (content types for the transferred data) in the list are ignored by Web
Protection during scanning.
Input box
In this box you can input the name of the MIME types and file types to be ignored by
Web Protection during scanning. For file types, enter the file extension, e.g. .htm. For
MIME types, indicate the media type and, where applicable, sub-type. The two
statements are separated from one another by a single slash, e.g. video/mpeg or
audio/x-wav.
Note
No wildcards (* for any number of characters or ? for a single character) can be
used when entering file types and MIME types.
Warning
All file types and content types on the exclusion list are downloaded into the
Internet browser without further scanning of the blocked requests (List of file
and MIME types to be blocked in Web Protection > Scan > Blocked requests) or
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