Web content filtering would be a useful security control, if certain admins didn’t block the Uncategorized category… Lots of cool apps like to use fresh domains.
Fortunately it’s only implemented in browsers using a process allowlist, so I found a few bypasses. curl is an obvious one if you don’t need a UI. Or in 2025, you could just download Chrome for Testing and rename chrome.exe.
That was patched (early 2026 I think) by using PE VersionInfo instead of file name - so you can just rcedit-x64.exe chrome.exe --set-version-string "OriginalFilename" check-your-signatures.exe.
Incidentally, writing this is how I found out rcedit is abandoned - so I wrote a replacement that also fixes lots of bugs. Go check it out here.
used data from Cyren, but later moved to NetStar. Both of them have significant categorization issues.