Monitoring Settings of Network Connections

On the SpIDer Gate tab, you can configure security policies used by SpIDer Gate upon an attempt to check sent and received mail and also to access the Internet.

By selecting or clearing switches in the Network activity monitoring section, you can define the types of network activity that the monitor controls, if it is enabled.

Switches in the Monitoring options section define website categories with restricted access (it applies not only to attempts to access such websites via browser but also to the blocking of email messages that contain links to such websites). By selecting or clearing switches, you can respectively allow or restrict access to websites of the following categories:

Category	Description
URL added due to a notice from copyright owner	Websites with content that infringes copyright (according to the copyright holder of this content). Among such websites are pirated sites, file reference directories, file hosting services, and others.
Non-recommended sites	Websites with unreliable content (suspected of phishing, password theft, and so on).
Adult content	Websites with adult content
Violence	Websites that contain violent material (for example, war scenes, acts of terrorism, and so on)
Weapons	Websites that contain information on weapons and explosives
Gambling	Internet casinos, gambling and bookmaking websites
Drugs	Websites that contain information on drug production, distribution, and use
Obscene language	Websites with obscene language
Chats	Chat websites
Terrorism	Websites that contain information about terrorism
Email	Websites that offer free email registration.
Social networks	Social networking websites

The same web resource can fall into several categories. If so, SpIDer Gate blocks access to it if the URL is included at least in one of the selected categories. Click on the Block other website categories label allows to display either a compact or an extended version of the list of available categories.

If you need to block access to a website which does not fall into any of these categories, add it to the user black list. If, alternatively, you need to allow access to a website which is included in any of the above mentioned categories and marked as unwanted, add it to the user white list. If necessary, you can also configure the list of applications which network connections will not be controlled by SpIDer Gate.

You can configure black and white lists of websites and applications excluded from SpIDer Gate monitoring on the Exclusions tab.

To manage parameters that SpIDer Gate uses when checking files downloaded from the Internet or sent via email messages, click the File transfer options button.

In the appeared window, you can specify the categories of malicious objects to be blocked on attempt to transmit them (including email message attachments). If a check box is selected, files that fall into the corresponding category are rejected on attempt to download them or transmit via email. If the check box is cleared, files that fall into this category are allowed for downloading. You can also set the maximum time to scan downloaded files (and email messages). If the Block transferring data due to checking error check box is selected, files and email messages that were not checked due to an error are blocked and cannot be downloaded. To allow downloading of such files and email messages, clear this check box (not recommended).

To close the window and save the changes, click OK. To discard the changes and close the window, click Cancel.