Summary: Detect when Kerio Control web filter or categorization becomes disabled and automatically restore protection while notifying admins and providing a remediation audit trail.
"It's not YouTube," Leo muttered, pulling up Kerio’s raw logs. The logs were a screaming kaleidoscope of IP addresses: 45% legitimate school traffic, 55% botnets, cryptominers, and zombie click-farms that had slipped in because no filter was there to blacklist known malicious domains. The Fix Then came the other problem
The Fix
Then came the other problem. Since categorization was disabled, the "safe search" enforcement was also off. A seventh-grader innocently searching for "swim team" was shown results that would make a sailor blush. The filter wasn't blocking bad things; it also wasn't blocking inappropriate things that looked like innocent things. The filter wasn't blocking bad things; it also
: The Web Filter requires a special license. If the license has expired or the trial period (30 days) has ended, the categorization options will be unavailable. Connectivity Failures The filter wasn't blocking bad things
If the box is already checked, uncheck it, save, then re-check and save again. This forces a reinitialization of the categorization service.
Check your license status in the GFI Administration Interface.