Filtering URL Filtering Logs
Comodo Internet Security allows you to create custom views of all logged events according to user defined criteria. You can use the following types of filters:
Clicking on the handle at the bottom enables you to filter the logs for a selected time period:
- Today - Displays all logged events for today.
- Current Week - Displays all logged events during the current week. (The current week is calculated from the Sunday to Saturday that holds the current date.)
- Current Month - Displays all logged events during the month that holds the current date.
- Entire Period - Displays every event logged since Comodo Internet Security was installed. (If you have cleared the log history since installation, this option shows all logs created since that clearance).
- Custom Filter - Enables you to select a custom period by choosing the 'From' and 'To' dates under 'Please Select Period'
Alternatively, you can right click inside the log viewer module and choose the time period.
Having chosen a preset time filter from the top panel, you can further refine the displayed events according to specific filters. Following are available filters for Defense+ logs and their meanings:
- Website - Displays only the events that involve a specific website
- Category - Displays only the events that involve attempts to access the websites of the specified category
- Action - Displays only the events that involved the specified action
To configure Advanced Filters for Defense+ events
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Click the funnel button
from
the title bar or
right click inside the log viewer module and choose 'Show Advanced
Filter' from the context sensitive menu.
The Advanced Filter interface for 'Website Filtering' events will
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Select the filter from the 'Advanced Filter' drop-down and click 'Add' to apply the filter.
You have 3 categories of filter that you can add. Each of these categories can be further refined by either selecting or deselecting specific filter parameters or by the user typing a filter string in the field provided. Following are the options available in the 'Advanced Filter' drop-down:
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Website: Adding the 'Website' option displays a drop-down menu and text entry field.
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Select 'Equal' or 'Not Equal' option from the drop-down menu.
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Enter the url of the website that needs to be filtered.
For example, if you choose 'Equal' option from the drop-down and enter the phrase 'facebook.com' in the text field, then all events that involve the website 'facebook.com' in the 'Website' column will be displayed. If you choose 'Not Equal' option from the drop-down and enter the phrase 'facebook.com' in the text field, then all events that do not involve 'facebook.com' will be displayed.
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Category: Selecting the 'Category' option displays a drop down menu and text entry field.
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Select 'Contains' or 'Does Not Contain' option from the drop-down menu.
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Enter the predefined category of websites that needs to be filtered from the Category column.
For example, if you choose 'Contains' option from the drop-down and enter the phrase 'Malware Sites' in the text field, then all events that involve the websites falling within the category will be displayed. If you choose 'Does Not Contain' option from the drop-down and enter the phrase 'Malware Sites' in the text field, then all events that do not involve the websites defined within the Malware Sites category will be displayed.
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Action: Selecting the 'Action' option displays a drop-down menu and a set of specific filter parameters that can be selected or deselected.
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Select 'Equal' or 'Not Equal' option from the drop down menu. 'Not Equal' will invert your selected choice.
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Now select the check-boxes of the specific filter parameters to refine your search. The parameter available are:
- Allow
- Block
- Ask
For example, if you choose 'Equal' option from the drop-down and select 'Block' from the checkboxes, only the events that involve blocking the access to the websites to the users will be displayed. If you choose 'Not Equal' option from the drop-down and select 'Block' check box, all the events that do not involve blocking the websites will be displayed. You can select more than one check box options from this interface, as required.
| Note: More than one filter can be added in the 'Advanced Filter' pane.
After adding one filter type, select the next filter type and
click 'Add'. You can also remove a filter type by clicking the 'X'
button at the top right of the filter pane.
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- Click 'Apply' for the filters to be applied to the Website Filtering log viewer. Only those 'Website Filtering' log entries selected based on your filter criteria will be displayed in the log viewer.
- For clearing all the filters, open 'Advanced Filter' pane and remove all the filters one-by-one by clicking the 'X' button at the top right of each filter pane and click 'Apply'.