Fortinet FortiGate 4000 User Manual

When you enable Anti-Virus & Web filter in a firewall policy, you select a content 
profile that controls how web filtering behaves for HTTP traffic. Content profiles control 
the following types of content filtering:

• blocking unwanted URLs,
• blocking unwanted content,
• removing scripts from web pages,
• exempting URLs from blocking.

You can also use the Cerberian URL filtering to block unwanted URLs. For more 
information, see 

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Configuring web filtering involves the following general steps:

Select web filtering options in a new or existing content profile. See 

Select the Anti-Virus & Web filter option in firewall policies that allow HTTP 
connections through the FortiGate unit. 
• Select a content profile that provides the web filtering options that you want to 

apply to a policy. See 

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