What websites are blocked By Fortigate Web or AV Filter

[BusinessUser]

How to check if a particular website is blocked by fortigate AV or web filter?

Perhaps I can enter the url into the firewall and check?

Or is there an external website where i can check?

Or do I have to do it from the local network?

Assume that default settings of av and web filter are applied.

[srajeswaran · Accepted solution]

You may check the website category from Fortiguard page - https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter
And then compare the category action you have configured on your profiles.

[BusinessUser]

If uncategorized, what will the default policy do?

[srajeswaran]

It will be blocked.

[pbangari]

Default action is 'block' for the unrated url however you can use the static URL filter to override the fortiguard categorization.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Using-a-static-URL-filter-feature-to-allow...

[mle2802]

Hi @BusinessUser,

In addition to the previous comment, you can also using URL filter to exempt or allow specific URL from the block category. Please refer to this document for more information 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Using-a-static-URL-filter-feature-to-allow...

Regards,
Minh

[hjhajj]

Hi,

-You can first check the category of the website from the web filter lookup 
https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter

- Under the firewall policy, check which web filter profile is being used

-  Under Security Profiles -> web Filter ; check if the action for the website category is Block or Allow

- To create an exception for a particular website from the category, you can create a static url 
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Using-a-static-URL-filter-feature-to-allow...

Regards,

Harmandeep Kaur Jhajj