So I have created a New Category ■■■■■■■■■■■ and added it to blocked sites.
but I think its not working properly.
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porn* doesn’t seem to be an url so it’s not recognized by CIS. According to helpfile:
To add a specific website/webpage, enter the full URL of the website/webpage To include all sub-domains of website, add a wildcard character and a period in front of the URL. For example, *.friskywenches.com will cover friskywenches.com, login.friskywenches.com, pictures.friskywenches.com, videos.friskywenches.com and so on.To include all the websites with URLs that start with a specific string, add a wildcard character after the string. For example, “pizza*” will cover ‘pizzahut.com’, pizzacorner.com, and so on.
To include all the websites with URLs that contain a specific string, add the wildcard character befor and after the string. For example, “pizza” will cover hotpizza.com, spicypizza.com and so on.
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Yes, you can. Again, from help documentations: http://help.comodo.com/uploads/Comodo%20Internet%20Security/fed85e91ebdd1966f4fc0662006670cc/5eac818f1e1c4adc19d335055b06586b/b6de609814d138e97c97a6d65f2d9e55/cis_web_filt_cate6_020314.png
Remember to make sure that correct file type is chosen. Then, add your category (which includes imported sites) to blocked websites.
Thanks!
“To include all the websites with URLs that start with a specific string, add a wildcard character after the string. For example, “pizza*” will cover ‘pizzahut.com’, pizzacorner.com, and so on.”
so I am using this rule : pizza* will cover pizzahut.com and so on
in similar way I blocked website porn* , technically it should block pornhub pornthis and pornthat.com
what is wrong ?
Okay, that’s odd, but I’ve found that it matters whether your url starts with www. or just http://
If you add a rule porn*, indeed, it will block all website starting with “porn”, but not with “www.porn*”. Check it.
There are two solutions:
Thanks!
I just want to point out that blocking porn will also block all websites with “porn” in the url, for example this very thread would be blocked since it has “pornographic” in the url (forums.comodo.com/firewall-help-cis/need-help-with-comodo-website-filter-blocking-pornographic-website-t105481.0.html) So for example if there is an article talking about porn or something like that and they use “porn” in the url, then that url will be blocked and with it the article.
Maybe you two realize that already but I just wanted to point it out just in case.
Great
you are right ,
www.porn* and porn* blocks all website like pornthis and pornthat.com
similarly www.x* and x* blocked all xxx website which starts from x
I need to add two rules , xxx* and www.xxx*
Working blocked almost all know websites with this method
and added rule
xxx which blocked all .xxx domains and website which contains xxx in their name
This.
New to this website filtering, vital info to think about and know about when doing website filtering.
So, if there’d exist a site on “top ornithologists” like
http://top-topics.thefullwiki.org/Top_ornithologists:_All
but with an URL like, for an example: http://topornithologists.com it would be blocked? 88) :azn:
Kind regards, REBOL.
It might even turn out to be somewhat difficult to buy you some cheap chinese acrylic necklace. 
This URL would definitely be blocked, as well:
I’m just trying to show here that URL-blocking that’s being exclusively based on word-blacklisting will always have it’s immanent drawbacks.
Kind regards, REBOL.
Good points! I guess I will refrain from using this feature then and stick to pure Firewall, I think that is what CIS does most solid and what it initially was intended to be user for.
What is the word to be blocked? top ornithologists? topornithologists? top?ornithologists? topornithologists*?
top ornithologists - No sites would be blocked because urls don’t have literal spaces.
topornithologists - The first site would’t be blocked but the second site would be blocked, third site wouldn’t be blocked because it doesn’t have the full “topornithologists” word.
top?ornithologists - The first site would be blocked but the second site wouldn’t be blocked, third site wouldn’t be blocked because it doesn’t have the full ornithologists word.
topornithologists* - First site would be blocked, second site would be blocked, third site wouldn’t be blocked because it doesn’t have the full ornithologists word.
In my opinion, CIS is not made for this kind of tasks. You need an application that has websites sorted under categories/rating such as K9.
Could a list, like this HOSTS list be imported like that? Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File
It is possible but not effective. There are probably a lot of porn sites created per day. Thus, the file would be quite large.
I am not looking to block porn, but to block those sites listed in the HOSTS file from mvps.org. Why would this not be effective with the firewall? Would this actually work with the firewall?
I won’t tell you “the word to be blocked” here, dear Sanya. :-[
It’s somewhere hidden inside topornithologists, I guess. 
Kind regards, REBOL.
As far as i know, there ain’t any “host blocking function” implemented yet into CIS.
It was part of qmarius’ and my wish, but since the wish has been rejected, it doesn’t look like we’re gonna get something like blocking-per-hosts-file function integrated anytime soon.
Kind regards, REBOL.
I don’t really understand the difference between blocking a host and a web address since the address is resolved from the host but I trust you word on it and will keep using the hosts file alongside CFW. If you mind explaining what the difference is in blocking it with a firewall and blocking it with a “hosts file”, I am all ears. Thank you
The HOST file is designed to help map network nodes. Its an alternative name resolution solution (read DNS), with the exception that the HOST file in under the local administrator’s direct control. I believe most OS’s will check the HOST file before doing a DNS query anyway.
The HOST file can be used for internet resource blocking, like advertising/malicious sites by redirecting the name to harmless destination like the loopback zone aka localhost. However keeping the HOST file up to date is labor intensive, most people seek software solutions to automate this task.
Oh sorry I thought you meant to block the words I mentioned, didn’t realize you meant to block the word port, yes the last two pages mentioned would be blocked if porn was blocked.
