Controlled Website categories

Controlled Website categories** in IITG campus network

  • Name: Malicious Websites
    Security Risk
    Sites that host software that is covertly downloaded to a user's machine to collect information and monitor user activity, and sites that are infected with destructive or malicious software, specifically designed to damage, disrupt, attack or manipulate computer systems without the user's consent, such as virus or trojan horse.
    Example : delta-search.com,sakagiller.com,aloepolera.top,clip.vn

  • Name: Games
    General Interest - Personal
    Sites that provide information about or promote electronic games, video games, computer games, role-playing games, or online games. Includes sweepstakes and giveaways. Sport games are not included in this category, but time consuming mathematic game sites that serve little education purpose are included in this category.
    Example : gameforge.com,gamer.com.tw,goodgamestudios.com,twitch.tv

  • Name: Pornography
    Adult / Mature Content
    Mature content websites (18+ years and over) which present or display sexual acts with the intent to sexually arouse and excite.

  • Name: Illegal or Unethical
    Potentially Liable
    Websites that feature information, methods, or instructions on fraudulent actions or unlawful conduct (non-violent) such as scams, counterfeiting, tax evasion, petty theft, blackmail, etc. It also includes sites which act as Proxy sites to access websites which are otherwise inaccessible through campus network.
    Example : kickass.to,thepiratebay.se,torrentz.eu,extratorrent.cc,sci-hub.tw,etc.

  • Name: Other Adult Materials
    Adult / Mature Content
    Mature content websites (18+ years and over) that feature or promote sexuality, strip clubs, sex shops, etc. excluding sex education, without the intent to sexually arouse.

  • Name: Phishing
    Security Risk
    Counterfeit web pages that duplicate legitimate business web pages for the purpose of eliciting financial, personal or other private information from the users.
    Example : bankofamericaamerica.com,signinbankofamerica.com,wellsfargo-confirm.com,wellsfargo-verify.com

  • Name: Explicit Violence
    Potentially Liable
    This category includes sites that depict offensive material on brutality, death, cruelty, acts of abuse, mutilation, etc.

  • Name: Nudity and Risque
    Adult / Mature Content
    Mature content websites (18+ years and over) that depict the human body in full or partial nudity without the intent to sexually arouse.

  • Name: Drug Abuse
    Potentially Liable
    Websites that feature information on illegal drug activities including: drug promotion, preparation, cultivation, trafficking, distribution, solicitation, etc.

** The above list is not exhaustive and subject to be updated as per CCC internet usage policy.