ENSURING CERTAIN SITES ARE ALWAYS ALLOWED

You can set CyberPatrol to allow sites by adding the site URL or keywords. This ensures that any site with a particular URL or a URL containing particular words will be allowed through regardless of what filtering is in place. To use a site URL to allow blocked sites: If you want to access a site that CyberPatrol is blocking, you can add the website URL to CyberPatrol as an allowed site.

1. In the Customize Filter Settings screen click the Customize button alongside Web Filtering.
2. Click My Allowed Sites.
   The My Allowed Sites screen appears.
3. Ensure you have the correct ser profile selected in the User list box at the top of the Sites Allowed screen.
4. Ask yourself the following question: “Do I want this website to be allowed for this user only or for everyone who has a profile?”
5. To add a site to a particular profile, use the top pane of the My Allowed Sites screen. To add a site to every profile, use the bottom pane of the My Allowed Sites screen.
6. Click the Add button by the relevant pane and enter the Web address of the website that you want to allow.
7. Click OK.
   The address of the website appears in the website pane with a green icon beside it to show that it is an Allowed website.
8. Click Save

To use the Real-time Activity Monitor to add URLs

1. From the Options Menu, select Monitoring Reports.
2. Click the Show Real-time Acitvity Monitor button in the right-hand pane.
   The Real-time Activity Monitor appears:
   
   
   
   
3. Open your web browser and go a website you want to allow.
   The URL details of all the website's data appears in the Real-Time Activity Monitor.
4. In the Real-Time Activity Monitor, right-click on these and choose Allow Website for this user or Allow Website for all users.
5. Click Save.

To use keywords to allow blocked sites:

Allowed keywords permit any website addresses containing the specified keyword to pass through the filter. This is sometimes necessary as the website address can change as you navigate to and through the site. See the Disney.com example earlier in the chapter.

1. From the Options Menu, click Customize Filter Settings, Web, Keywords Allowed.
2. Ensure you have the correct user profile selected in the User list box at the top of the Keywords Allowed screen.
3. Ask yourself the following question: “Do I want this keyword allowed for this user only or for everyone who has a profile?”
4. To add a keyword to a particular profile use the top pane of the My Allowed Keywords screen. To add a keyword to every profile use the bottom pane of the My Allowed Keywords screen.
5. Click the Add button by the relevant pane and enter the keyword that you want to allow into the dialog that follows.
6. Click OK. The keyword appears in the User Profile URL Keyword pane with a green icon beside it to show that it is an allowed keyword.
7. Click Save.

Caution: Any website address containing this keyword in its web address will now be allowed for every user who has had a profile created for them. Great care must be taken when specifying allowed keywords as these words may be included in websites that you would not normally allow, particularly if the page was found using a Search Engine.