Andy is right on.AndyC wrote:IIRC, the Websense firewall has the "Weapons" category enabled/blocked by default, along with a few others like drugs, porn, etc.
Its a simple category based filter and the defaults were selected.
The category can be un checked or individual exceptions can be added...
We often see sites miscategorized.
BTW Im a BIG fan of this type of filtering -
It helps with reducing wasted time by employees BUT bigger issue for me is the fact that the known dark parts of the web are blocked - which means that the link in the email you received from Nigeria is likely already blocked unless the exploit JUST came out... So even though your employee, failed to follow basic email practices and TRIED to infect the whole company - it didnt work