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Trouble with SophosWebIntelligence.bundle

nevets

I am using a Mac OS10.6.8

Yesterday Sophos Anti-Virus updated to 9.0.1 - but seems to have also installed at the same time SophosWebIntelligence.bundle

Now whenever I use the internet (Safari) numerous request popups show to allow or disallow connections.

I have Little Snitch installed and those connection requests seem not to show anymore: they were far fewer than what now shows  as SophosWebIntelligence.bundle

The issues are:

Some some reason I no logger access to Google search. Of course I didn’’’’t deny a goggle connection and google was already set under little snitch as always connect.

The internet has become I would guess 10 times slower; it’’’’s almost a snails pace.

I can’’’’t fine the preference details for the SophosWebIntelligence.bundle - I assume it is like Little Snitch were any access denied can be undone or permanent access set.

THere is now an excess of deny or accept popups for every page I visit - the obvious ones of course I allow but some are vague. There can be around 10 per page.

Any ideas how to solve these points would be welcome.

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    First, remember that I'm just a user like you, so all I can offer is an opinion.

    If I correctly understand your problem, the pop-ups are being generated by Little Snitch in response to the additional traffic being generated by Sophos Web protection and there are more pop-ups with Web protection active because Sophos is checking out all of the links hidden and embedded in the web page (which can be quite a few; e.g., I just clicked on AccuWeather and the Firefox extension Request Policy blocked it from reaching out to brightcove, quantserv, scorecardresearch, doubleclick and four more). While I suspect all of them are "legitimate," if unnecessarily nosey, at least they aren't dangerous.

    But I keep getting emails passed through Verizon's spam filters (without being stopped) offering free ADT Home protection, High Quality Printer ink, 10 days to a new language, etc., which, when I check out the source IP address in the header I find they're from Ghana. Yesterday it was the Russian Federation. That's a long drive for a home alarm installation.

    The point being what appears in your web browser (or a link in your email) may not be what it appears to be and even if it initially is, one or more of the elements in it may be the result of hacking so that you get routed to a malicious web connection without your knowledge. It's my understanding that Web Protection inspects them all. Note that in the interest of Surfing Security© I use Firefox with a bunch of extensions that initially interfere with javascript, external connection requests, cookies, tracking and otherwise, ad blocking, and "supercookies". It takes some time to find the combination of permissions that let a webpage work and sometimes I have to switch to a different browser altogether if the connection must be made.

    So trying to stay secure and reasonably private on the web is a tradeoff between convenience and security and how much hassle anyone is willing to accept is a very individual choice. Little Snitch warns you something is happening while Sophos would warn you if that something is risky but it has to check all the "somethings" first.

    I'd go with active rather than passive security. But that's just me.

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    First, remember that I'm just a user like you, so all I can offer is an opinion.

    If I correctly understand your problem, the pop-ups are being generated by Little Snitch in response to the additional traffic being generated by Sophos Web protection and there are more pop-ups with Web protection active because Sophos is checking out all of the links hidden and embedded in the web page (which can be quite a few; e.g., I just clicked on AccuWeather and the Firefox extension Request Policy blocked it from reaching out to brightcove, quantserv, scorecardresearch, doubleclick and four more). While I suspect all of them are "legitimate," if unnecessarily nosey, at least they aren't dangerous.

    But I keep getting emails passed through Verizon's spam filters (without being stopped) offering free ADT Home protection, High Quality Printer ink, 10 days to a new language, etc., which, when I check out the source IP address in the header I find they're from Ghana. Yesterday it was the Russian Federation. That's a long drive for a home alarm installation.

    The point being what appears in your web browser (or a link in your email) may not be what it appears to be and even if it initially is, one or more of the elements in it may be the result of hacking so that you get routed to a malicious web connection without your knowledge. It's my understanding that Web Protection inspects them all. Note that in the interest of Surfing Security© I use Firefox with a bunch of extensions that initially interfere with javascript, external connection requests, cookies, tracking and otherwise, ad blocking, and "supercookies". It takes some time to find the combination of permissions that let a webpage work and sometimes I have to switch to a different browser altogether if the connection must be made.

    So trying to stay secure and reasonably private on the web is a tradeoff between convenience and security and how much hassle anyone is willing to accept is a very individual choice. Little Snitch warns you something is happening while Sophos would warn you if that something is risky but it has to check all the "somethings" first.

    I'd go with active rather than passive security. But that's just me.

    :1017963
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