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SOPHOS WEB SECURITY AND CONTROL TEST SITE

This test site contains pages classified by SophosLabs for the purpose of
testing our web security and control products. Note that some pages are
classified as potentially offensive or dangerous however the page content itself
should be considered safe for viewing in all circumstances.




SOPHOS SANDSTORM TEST FILES

These files enable testing and demos of Sophos Sandstorm on Sophos products
enabled with Sandstorm. They are harmless files with active content that will
trigger Sophos Sandstorm analysis.

SandStorm Test File 1
SandStorm Test File 2 (email only)


SOPHOS HIPS TEST FILES

These files enable testing and demos of Sophos behavior protection (HIPS)
feature for endpoint products. The executable is a harmless file that will
trigger a behavior-based Sophos detection HPmal/Eicar-A.

Sophos HIPS Test (zip)
Sophos HIPS Test (exe)


ADULT OR SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Includes sites for adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos; child
pornography and pedophilia (including the IWF list); adult services including
video-conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs; erotic stories and textual
descriptions of sexual acts; explicit cartoons and animation; online groups,
including newsgroups and forums that are sexually explicit in nature;
sexually-oriented or erotic sites with full or partial nudity; depictions or
images of sexual acts, including with animals or inanimate objects used in a
sexual manner; sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics;
bondage, fetishes, genital piercing; naturist sites that feature nudity; and
erotic or fetish photography, which depicts nudity.

Note: We do not include sites regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or
sexually transmitted diseases (except those with graphic examples).


ADVERTISEMENTS AND POP-UPS

Includes sites of banner ad servers, sites with pop-up advertisements, and sites
with known adware.

Note: Sophos's advanced categorization data uses the most current technical
definition for Adware, and thus recognizes the difference between non-malicious
adware, such as ""cookies"" and more serious Spyware.


ALCOHOL OR TOBACCO

Includes sites that promote or distribute alcohol or tobacco products for free
or for a charge.


ANONYMIZERS

Includes sites that operate proxy services, or offer proxy software, with the
specific intent of defeating security and control.


ARTS

Includes sites for museums, galleries, artist sites (sculpture, photography,
etc.), performing arts (theater, vaudeville, opera, symphonies, etc.), dance
companies, studios, and training; book reviews and promotions; and variety
magazines and poetry.


BLOGS AND FORUMS

Includes sites of weblogs (blogs), newsgroups, and opinion or discussion forums.


BUSINESS

Includes general business corporate web sites, international and multi-national
large general business corporate sites, business associations, and basic
business sites, such as FedEx, that enable organizations to manage their
necessary daily business tasks.

Note: Business sites that fit more appropriately into another related category,
such as Finance or Travel, will be categorized in those categories.


CALL HOME

Includes sites identified to be used for command & control servers (callhome,
C2) by malware running on infected computers.


CHAT

Includes sites of web-based chat and instant message servers.


COMPUTING AND INTERNET

Includes sites of reviews, information, buyer's guides of computers, computer
parts and accessories, computer software and internet companies, industry news
and magazines, and pay-to-surf sites.


CRIMINAL ACTIVITY

Includes sites for advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing
illegal acts; tips on evading law enforcement; and lock-picking and burglary
techniques.


CUSTOM

Includes sites categorized for use with a custom policy. For example, you could
set sites that you want to be always approved by adding them to your local
classifications list, and setting their Risk class to Trusted and their Site
category to Custom.


DOWNLOADS

Includes sites for downloadable (non-streaming) movie, video or sound clips;
downloadable PDA software, including themes and graphics; freeware and shareware
sites; personal storage or backup sites; and clip art, fonts and animated .gif
pages.

Note: This category does not include update sites such as those for operating
systems, anti-virus agents, or other business-critical programs.


EDUCATION

Includes sites for educational institutions, including pre-schools, elementary,
secondary, and high schools and universities; educational sites at the
pre-school, elementary, secondary, and high school and university levels;
distance education and trade schools, including online courses; and online
teacher resources (lesson plans, etc.).


EICAR

The Standard Anti-Virus Test File.


ENTERTAINMENT

Includes sites about television, movies, music and video programming guides;
online magazines and reviews of the entertainment industry; celebrity fan sites;
broadcasting firms and technologies (satellite, cable, etc.); horoscopes; jokes,
comics, comic books, comedians, or any site designed to be funny or satirical;
online greeting cards; and amusement and theme park sites.


FASHION AND BEAUTY

Includes sites of fashion or glamor magazines, online beauty products, and
cosmetics.


FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

Includes sites for stock quotes, stock tickers, and fund rates; online stock or
equity trading; online banking and bill-pay services; investing advice or
contacts for trading securities; money management or investment services or
firms; general finances and companies that advise about finances; and
accountancy, actuaries, banks, mortgages, and general insurance companies.


FOOD AND DINING

Includes sites for recipes, cooking instruction and tips, food products, and
wine advisors; restaurants, cafes, eateries, pubs, and bars; and food and drink
magazines and reviews.


GAMBLING

Includes sites of online gambling or lottery web sites that invite the use of
real or virtual money; information or advice for placing wagers, participating
in lotteries, gambling, or running numbers; virtual casinos and offshore
gambling ventures; sports picks and betting pools; and virtual sports and
fantasy leagues that offer large rewards or request significant wagers.

Note: Casino, hotel, and resort sites that do not feature online gambling or
provide gaming tips are categorized under Travel.


GAMES

Includes sites for game playing or downloading, game hosting or contest hosting,
tips and advice on games or obtaining cheat codes (""cheatz""), and journals and
magazines dedicated to online game playing.


GOVERNMENT

Includes sites for local, state, federal and international government sites, and
government services, such as taxation, armed forces, customs bureaus, and
emergency services.


HACKING AND COMPUTER CRIME

Web pages that provide ""how-to"" directions, or otherwise enable, fraud, crime,
or malicious activity that is computer oriented. Web pages related to computer
crime include malicious hacking information or tools that help individuals gain
unauthorized access to computers and networks (root kits, kiddy scripts). Also
included are other areas of electronic fraud such as dialer scams and illegal
manipulation of electronic devices. Illegal software does not fall under this
category; see ""Illegal Software"".


HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Includes sites for prescription medicines; medical information and reference
about ailments, conditions, and drugs; general health, such as fitness and
well-being; medical procedures, including elective and cosmetic surgery;
dentistry, optometry, and other medical-related sites; general psychiatry and
mental well-being sites; psychology, self-help books, and organizations;
promoting self-healing of physical and mental abuses, ailments, and addictions;
alternative and complementary therapies, including yoga, chiropractic, and
cranio-sacral; and hospital and medical insurance sites.


HOBBIES & RECREATION

Includes sites for recreational pastimes, such as collecting, gardening, and kit
airplanes; outdoor recreational activities, such as hiking, camping, and rock
climbing; tips or trends focused on a specific art, craft, or technique; online
publications on a specific pastime or recreational activity; online clubs,
associations, or forums dedicated to a hobby; traditional games, such as board
games and card games, and their enthusiasts; and animal and pet related sites,
including breed-specific sites, training, shows, and humane societies sites.


HOSTING SITES

Includes web sites that host business and individuals' web pages, for example
GeoCities, earthlink.net, and AOL.


ILLEGAL DRUGS

Includes sites for recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing
illicit substances for purposes other than industrial usage; glamorizing,
encouraging, or instructing on the use of or masking the use of alcohol,
tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors;
information on ""legal highs"", including glue sniffing, misuse of prescription
drugs, or abuse of other legal substances; distributing illegal drugs free or
for a charge; and displaying, selling, or detailing the use of drug
paraphernalia.


INFRASTRUCTURE

Includes sites for content delivery networks, XML reference schemas, web
analytics and statistics services, transaction servers, and corporate image
servers.


INTIMATE APPAREL AND SWIMWEAR

Includes sites for lingerie, negligee, and other intimate apparel modeling;
swimwear modeling; models' fan pages; modeling information and agencies; and
fitness models and sports celebrities sites.


INTOLERANCE AND HATE

Includes sites that advocate or incite degradation or attack of specified
populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race,
nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation; sites that promote
a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and exclusionary of
others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or
sexual orientation; holocaust revisionist or denial sites and other revisionist
sites that encourage hate; coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang or
cult; militancy and extremist sites; and flagrantly insensitive or offensive
material, including those with a lack of recognition or respect for opposing
opinions and beliefs.
Note: We do not include news, historical, or press incidents that may include
the above criteria (except in graphic examples).

For the purposes of this category, a gang is defined as: a group whose primary
activities are the commission of felonious criminal acts, which has a common
name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or
collectively engage in criminal activity in the name of the group. A cult is
defined as: a group whose followers have been deceptively and manipulatively
recruited and retained through undue influence such that followers'
personalities and behavior are altered; a group in which leadership is
all-powerful, ideology is totalistic, and the will of the individual is
subordinate to the group; and a group that sets itself outside of society.


JOB SEARCH AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Includes sites of employment agencies, contractors, job listings, career
information, career searches, and career-networking groups.


KID'S SITES

Includes child-oriented sites and sites published by children.


MALWARE

Includes sites identified to be hosting malicious content, representing a
significant security concern.


MOTOR VEHICLES

Includes sites for car reviews, vehicle purchasing or sales tips, and parts
catalogs; auto trading, photos, and discussion of vehicles including
motorcycles, boats, cars, trucks, and RVs; journals and magazines on vehicle
modification, repair, and customization; and online automotive enthusiast club
sites.


NEWS

Includes online newspapers, headline news sites, newswire services, personalized
news services, and weather sites.


PEER-TO-PEER

Includes peer-to-peer file sharing clients and peer-to-peer file sharing
servers.


PERSONALS AND DATING

Includes singles listings, matchmaking and dating services, advice for dating or
relationships, and romance tips and suggestions sites.


PHILANTHROPIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Includes sites of philanthropic and charity organizations, environmental
organizations, professional associations, labor unions, and social
organizations.


PHISHING OR FRAUD

Includes sites involved in phishing and telephone scams, service theft advice
sites, and plagiarism and cheating sites, including the sale of research papers.


PHOTO SEARCHES

Includes sites that provide resources for photography, image searches, online
photo albums, digital photo exchanges, and image hosting.


POLITICS

Includes sites for political parties; political debate, canvassing, election
information, and results; and conspiracy theory and alternative government view
sites that are not hate-based.


PROXIES AND TRANSLATORS

Includes sites for remote proxies or anonymous surfing, search engine caches
that circumvent filtering, and web-based translation sites that circumvent
filtering.


REAL ESTATE

Includes sites for home, apartment, and land listings; rental or relocation
services; tips on buying or selling a home; real estate agents; and home
improvement sites.


REFERENCE

Includes sites for personal, professional, or educational reference; online
dictionaries, maps, and language translation sites; census, almanacs, and
library catalogs; and topic-specific search engines.


RELIGION

Includes sites of churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship; any faith
or religious belief sites, including non-traditional religions such as Wicca and
witchcraft.


REPUTATION

Includes files identified by Sophos as having a low or medium reputation.


RINGTONES AND MOBILE PHONE DOWNLOADS

Includes sites of providers of mobile phone downloads, including ringtones,
logos, backgrounds, screensavers, and games.


SEARCH ENGINES

Includes general search engines, such as Yahoo, AltaVista, and Google.


SEX EDUCATION

Includes sites with pictures or text advocating the proper use of
contraceptives; sites relating to discussion about the use of the pill, IUDs,
and other types of contraceptives; and discussion sites on how to talk to your
partner about diseases, pregnancy, and respecting boundaries.

Note: Not included in the category are commercial sites that sell sexual
paraphernalia. These sites are typically found in the Adult category.


SHOPPING

Includes sites for department stores, retail stores, company catalogs, and other
sites that allow online consumer shopping, sites for online auctions, online
downloadable product warehouses, specialty items for sale, and freebies or
merchandise giveaways.


SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Includes sites on home life and family-related topics, including weddings,
births and funerals; parenting tips and family planning; non-pornographic gay,
lesbian, and bisexual issues; foreign cultures and socio-cultural information;
and non-explicit tattoo and piercing parlors.


SPAM URLS

Includes URLs found in spam, particularly on these topics: computing, finance
and stocks, entertainment, games, health and medicine, humor and novelties,
personal and dating, products and services, shopping, and travel.


SPORTS

Includes sites for team or conference web sites; national, international,
college, professional scores and schedules; sports-related online magazines or
newsletters; and fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues that are free or
low-cost.


SPYWARE

Includes sites that provide or promote information gathering or tracking that is
unknown to, or done without the explicit consent of, the end user or the
organization, including sites that carry malicious executables or viruses, third
party monitoring, and other unsolicited commercial software, spyware, and
malware ""phone home"" destinations.

Note: The technical definition of Spyware used for this category may not exactly
match the definition used elsewhere by Sophos. This category focuses on
filtering malicious and tracking content, not simply adware and cookies. For
non-malicious adware filtering, please block the Advertisements and Pop-ups
category.


STREAMING MEDIA

Includes sites for streaming media files or events (any live or archived audio
or video file), Internet TV and radio, non-explicit personal webcam sites,
telephony sites that allow users to make calls via the internet, and VoIP
services.


TASTELESS OR OFFENSIVE

Includes sites that feature offensive or violent language, including through
jokes, comics, or satire, and excessive use of profanity or obscene
gesticulation.


TRAVEL

Includes sites of airlines and flight booking agencies, accommodation
information, travel package listings, city guides and tourist information, and
car rentals.


VIOLENCE

Includes sites portraying, describing or advocating physical assault against
humans, animals, or institutions; depicting torture, mutilation, gore, or
horrific death; advocating, encouraging, or depicting self-endangerment, or
suicide, including through eating disorders or addictions; instructions,
recipes, or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices; sites
promoting terrorism; and excessively violent sports or games, including videos
and online games.

Note: We do not block news, historical, or press incidents that may include the
above criteria, except those that include graphic examples.


WEAPONS

Includes sites with online purchasing or ordering information, including lists
of prices and dealer locations; any page or site predominantly containing, or
providing links to, content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or
poisonous substances; displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons,
ammunition or poisonous substances; and clubs which offer training on machine
guns, automatics, other assault weapons, and sniper training.

Note: Weapons are defined as something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to
injure, defeat, or destroy.


WEB-BASED EMAIL

Includes sites for web-based e-mail accounts and messaging sites.



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