The web resource content categories (hereinafter also referred to as "categories") listed below have been selected to most fully describe the blocks of data hosted by web resources, taking into account their functional and thematic features. The order in which the categories appear in this list does not reflect the relative importance or prevalence of such categories on the Internet. The category names are provisional and used solely for the purposes of Kaspersky applications and websites. The names do not necessarily reflect the meaning implied by law. One web resource can belong to several categories at once.
This category includes the following types of web resources:
This also includes web resources with the following content:
This category includes web resources whose content is directly or indirectly related to alcoholic or alcohol-containing products, tobacco products, and narcotic, psychotropic and/or intoxicating substances:
This category includes web resources addressing scientific and medical topics.
This category includes web resources containing any photo, video or text materials describing acts of physical or psychological violence directed against human beings, or cruel treatment of animals.
This category does not include educational portals, encyclopedias, web pages of government institutions, or official websites of the media or newspapers.
This category includes web resources where obscene language has been detected. Overlaps the "Adult content" category. This category also includes web resources with linguistic and philological materials containing profanity as the subject of study.
Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics
This category includes web resources containing information about armed forces, weapons, explosives, and pyrotechnical products:
The term "weapons" refers to any devices, items, and resources designed to harm the life or health of humans and animals and/or damage equipment and structures. This includes replicas and airsoft weapons. This category does not include educational portals, encyclopedias, web pages of government institutions, or official websites of the media or newspapers.
This category includes web resources designed to bring together employers and job seekers:
This category includes web resources that provide information or tools for downloading the contents of other web resources with the following purposes:
This category includes web resources with contents intended for the purposes mentioned above (VPN, "anonymizers") and web resources with technically similar functionality.
This category includes web resources where users can download software packages.
This subcategory includes websites of torrent trackers intended for sharing files of unlimited size.
This subcategory includes file sharing websites irrespective of the physical location of files being distributed.
This subcategory includes web resources distributing audio and video materials: movies, recordings of sports broadcasts, recordings of concerts, songs, movie clips, videos, tutorial audio and video recordings, etc.
Gambling, lotteries, sweepstakes
This category includes web resources that offer users to participate financially in gambling, even if such financial participation is not a mandatory condition for access to the website. This category includes web resources offering the following:
This category includes games that offer free-of-charge participation as a separate mode, and web resources that aggressively advertise this category of web resources to users.
This category includes web resources that enable users (whether registered or not) to send personal messages to other users of relevant web resources or other online services and/or add content (either open to public access or restricted) to relevant web resources under specific terms.
This subcategory includes exclusively authorization pages of an email service and mailbox pages containing emails and associated data (such as personal contacts). This category does not include other web pages of an Internet service provider that also offers email service.
This subcategory includes websites designed for building, displaying, and managing contacts between persons, organizations, and governments, which require registration of a user account as a condition of participation.
This subcategory includes web resources intended for public discussion of various topics using special web applications, and web resources designed to distribute or support instant messaging applications that enable real-time communication.
This subcategory includes blog platforms, which are websites that provide paid or free services for creating and maintaining blogs.
This subcategory includes web resources serving as a variety of social networks providing paid or free services. Overlaps the "Adult content" and "Online stores, banks, payment systems" categories.
Online stores, banks, payment systems
This category includes web resources designed for any online transactions in non-cash monetary funds using special-purpose web applications.
This subcategory includes online shops and auctions selling any goods, work or services to individuals and/or legal entities, including websites of stores that conduct sales exclusively online and online profiles of physical stores that accept online payments.
This subcategory includes specialized web pages of banks with online banking functionality, including wire (electronic) transfers between bank accounts, making bank deposits, performing currency conversion, paying for third-party services, etc.
This subcategory includes web pages of e-money systems that provide access to the user's personal account. In technical terms, payment can be made using both bank cards of any types (plastic or virtual, debit or credit, local or international) and e-money. Web resources may fall into this category regardless of whether or not they have such technical features as data transmission over the SSL protocol, use of 3D Secure authentication, and other features.
This subcategory includes websites offering services for buying and selling cryptocurrency as well as informational services concerning cryptocurrencies and mining.
This category includes web resources devoted to video games of various genres, such as:
Religions, religious associations
This category includes web resources with materials on public movements, associations, and organizations with a religious ideology and/or cult in any manifestations:
This category includes web resources with public news content created by mass media or online publications that let users add their own news reports:
This category includes web resources with banners. Advertising information on banners may distract users from their activities, while banner downloads increase the amount of traffic.
Web resources prohibited from distribution to territories of specific countries in accordance with relevant legislative agencies.
Web resources prohibited by legislation of the Russian Federation.
Web resources prohibited from distribution by the Belgian Gaming Commission.
Web resources provided upon agreement with the Japanese police.