McAfee AVDCDE-BA-CA User Guide - Page 144

Using the VShield Scanner The Banned URLs dialog box identifies which Uniform Resource Locators you want the Internet Filter module to block whenever you or someone else tries to connect to them. By default, the list includes two domain names that download hostile Java or ActiveX objects to your machine as soon as you connect. You can add other domain names, then password-protect your settings to ensure that users do not delete them. URLs specify the domain name and location of a computer on the Internet, usually together with the "transport protocol" you want to use to request a resource from that computer. A complete URL for a website, for instance, would look like: http://www.domain.com The complete URL tells your browser to request the resource via the Hyper Text Transport Protocol ("http://") from a computer named "www" on a network domain named "domain.com." Other transport protocols include "ftp://" and "gopher://." The Internet's Domain Name System translates URLs into IP addresses using an up-to-date, centralized, and cross-referenced database. To add a site to this list, you must enter the domain name by itself, since the module will assume you mean the Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP). To change the list, you can: - Click Add to open the Add URL dialog box. Next, type the URL you want to add to the Banned URLs list in the in the dialog box that appears (Figure 4-35). Click OK to return to the Banned IP addresses dialog box. Figure 4-35. Add URL dialog box - Select one of the items shown, then click Delete to remove the item from the list. When you have changed the banned list so that it has all of the addresses you want to block, click OK to return to the Internet Filter Properties dialog box. 144 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software