| Category ID | Category Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 44092 | Email Nasties | Domains associated with advertising companies that run HTML email advertising campaigns. These ad-oriented HTML emails may make use of web bugs, scripting, and rich media content, as well as various tracking technologies to record and measure impressions and responses to ad campaigns. Also included in this category are email verification services, which use HTML email features to verify and monitor the receipt and reading of emails. |
| 44093 | Big Ads | Domains associated with large online advertising networks. The advertising networks deliver a complete array of online advertising to web sites, including banner ads, interstitials, rich media ads, pop-ups, and pop-unders. Many of these large advertising networks accept and deliver ads for commercial spyware and adware as well as the advertising delivered through adware applications. |
| 44094 | Counters | Domains associated with companies and web sites that offer metrics services to web sites and other online entities. Some of these metrics services may run small advertising networks in tandem with the counters placed on third-party web sites. |
| 44095 | Misc Ads | Domains associated with smaller advertising networks, PPC "search" web sites, and scam marketing sites. Some of these PPC "search" sites and advertising networks may serve as fronts for or even deliver advertising for spyware and adware. |
| 44096 | Adware/Spyware | Domains associated with vendors and distributors of spyware, adware, greyware, and other potentially unwanted advertising software. Some of these domains may run exploits to facilitate the installation of this unwanted software. |
| 44097 | CoolWebSearch | Domains associated with the "CWS gang," a loosely affiliated collection of individuals, groups, and web sites centered in the former Soviet Union that engage in all manner of fraudulent practices. This online "gang" is known to run a wide variety of security exploits in order to install adware, spyware, trojans, backdoors, keyloggers, rootkits, and spambots on victims' computers. |
| 44098 | Misc Exploits | Miscellaneous, unaffiliated domains associated with delivering adware, spyware, and malware to victims' PCs, often through the use of various exploits. |
| 44099 | Dialers | Web sites associated with vendors and distributors of porn dialers, many of which are installed through deceptive means, including security exploits. |
| 44100 | Adult Networks/Services | Domains associated with companies and vendors that specialize in offering commercial services through or to the online adult content industry. These services may consist of advertising, metrics, content aggregation, registration & billing, age verification, as well as hosting for adult sites and networks. Many of these adult services and hosts may have ties to the distribution of adware, spyware, and dialers. |
| 44101 | Rogue Utility Software | Domains and websites associated with the advertising, marketing, and distribution of so-called "rogue" utility programs. "Rogue" utilities include all manner of deceptive or malicious anti-spyware, anti-malware, Registry cleaning, and system cleaning software. Such utilities are deemed "rogue" if the software itself exhibits malicious or deceptive behavior or if the software is pushed on consumers through unfair, misleading, deceptive, unethical, or coercive means. |
Border Patrol Categories
Super Administrator
Written By Marissa Fegan (Super Administrator)
Updated at May 11th, 2022