which they have created unique definitions.  SurfControl uses 40 such categories, N2H2

uses 35 categories (and seven  exception  categories), Websense uses 30 categories, and

Secure Computing uses 30 categories.  Filtering software customers choose which

categories of URLs they wish to enable.  A user  enables  a category in a filtering

program by configuring the program to block all of the Web pages listed in that category.  

The following is a list of the categories offered by each of these four filtering

programs.  SurfControl's Cyber Patrol offers the following categories:  Adult/Sexually

Explicit; Advertisements; Arts & Entertainment; Chat; Computing & Internet; Criminal

Skills; Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco; Education; Finance & Investment; Food & Drink;

Gambling; Games; Glamour & Intimate Apparel; Government & Politics; Hacking; Hate

Speech; Health & Medicine; Hobbies & Recreation; Hosting Sites; Job Search & Career

Development; Kids' Sites; Lifestyle & Culture; Motor Vehicles; News; Personals &

Dating; Photo Searches; Real Estate; Reference; Religion; Remote Proxies; Sex

Education; Search Engines; Shopping; Sports; Streaming Media; Travel; Usenet News;

Violence; Weapons; and Web based Email.  

N2H2 offers the following categories:  Adults Only; Alcohol; Auction; Chat;

Drugs; Electronic Commerce; Employment Search; Free Mail; Free Pages; Gambling;

Games; Hate/Discrimination; Illegal; Jokes; Lingerie; Message/Bulletin Boards;

Murder/Suicide; News; Nudity; Personal Information; Personals; Pornography; Profanity;

Recreation/Entertainment; School Cheating Information; Search Engines; Search Terms;

Sex; Sports; Stocks; Swimsuits; Tasteless/Gross; Tobacco; Violence; and Weapons. The

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