Monitoring Settings of Network Connections

On the SpIDer Gate tab, you can configure security policies used by SpIDer Gate upon an attempt 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.

Switchers in the Monitoring options section define categories of websites and hosts with restricted access (it applies not only to attempts to access such websites via a browser but also to attempts to access FTP servers). By enabling or disabling corresponding switchers, you can allow or restrict access to websites and hosts from 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 websites	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
Online games	Websites that provide access to games using the permanent internet connection.
Anonymizers	Websites that allow the user to hide personal information and that provide access to the blocked web resources.
Cryptocurrency mining pools	Websites that provide access to common services for cryptocurrencies mining.
Jobs	Job search 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 to expand or collapse the list of available categories.

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

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

To configure parameters used by SpIDer Gate for scanning files downloaded from the internet, click File checking options.

In the appeared window, you can specify the categories of malicious objects to be blocked on attempt to transmit them. If a check box is selected, files that fall into the corresponding category are rejected on attempt to download them. 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. If the Block transferring data due to checking error check box is selected, files that were not scanned due to an error are blocked and cannot be downloaded. To allow downloading of such files, 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.