Malicious Categories

Malware Sites

Siteshosting malicious content including executables, drive-by infection sites, malicious scripts, viruses, trojans, and code.

Phishingand Other Frauds

Phishing, pharming, and other sites that pose as a reputable site, usually to harvest personalinformation from a user. These sites are typically quite short-lived, so they don’t last long in terms of uptime.

Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers

Proxyservers and other methods to gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses URL filtering or monitoring. Web-based translation sites that circumvent filtering.

Keyloggers and Monitoring

Softwareagents that track a user's keystrokes or monitor their web surfing habits. Often used for collecting sensitive data such as usernames and passwords.

SPAM URLs

Sites known to distribute unsolicited email (spam) messages.

Spywareand Adware

Spywareor Adware sites that provide or promote information gathering or tracking that is unknown to, or without the explicit consent of, the end user or the organization, also unsolicited advertising popups and programs that may be installed on a user's computer.

Bot Nets

These are URLs, often IP addresses, which are determined to be part of a Bot network, fromwhich network attacks are launched. Attacks may include SPAM messages, DOS, SQL injections, proxy jacking, and other unsolicited contacts.