Trying to browse the photoolsweb.com with Mozilla in my company work desktop, I get a message from my company saying that is not permited accesing uncategorized sites :'(. Has someone experienced this too ?. Is that my enterprise web policies are very tight or photoolsweb.com is actually an uncategorized site ?
Thank you
Javier
What is a categorized web site?
Probably some sort of global filter your company runs, categorizing web sites and limiting access to web sites the employees are allowed to use. Ask your IT people for more info.
Thanks Mario,
I´ll browse photoolsweb from home.
Your company probably has a filtering system similar to ours. There you have web sites categorized (like "News", "Social Media", "P...", etc) and sites get blocked or not depending on the settings in place. "Social Media" could be blocked all the time, whereas "News" might be open during lunch time only.
Optionally, sites which are not "known" by the filter, and therefore cannot be assigned to a category, may be blocked by default.
(I know this because the man controlling the filters for our company sits right in front of me and I'm his backup ... 8) )
Normally bigger companies have proxys to filter and control the access to the internet.
One of the biggest player in the proxy-field is "Bluecoat".
They have a webpage where you can check an url and ask for a review of the categorisation.
http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp (http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp)
http://photoolsweb.com is categorized as
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Blue Coat Category Descriptions
Technology/Internet
Sites that sponsor or provide information, news, reviews, opinions and coverage of computing, computing devices and technology, consumer electronics, and general technology. Also includes sites of technology-related organizations and companies.
Examples: pcworld.com, cnet.com, dell.com, microsoft.com, javaworld.com, cisco.com, pc-world.de, lenovo.com.cn, simyo.es, engadget.com, kaspersky.com
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which seemes to be correct.
Another filter is http://www.urlblacklist.com/ (http://www.urlblacklist.com/)
http://photoolsweb.com is not in this database.
And there are many other, e.g. websense
I don't know which url-filter your company uses. So call your firewall/proxy-support and asked them to cleanup the filter-list.
Winfried
Thank you Carlo an Winfried,
I think I´m not going to ask anything to the IT people, they may think I spend work hours browsing internet sites ;)