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Web Intelligence and cURL

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Dear All,

The documentation for SAV 9.x states that the Web Intelligence service filters content for the platform's main browsers: Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. It does not mention other applications or services and, indeed, most of the apps I have looked into appear to connect directly to the Internet.

While toying with cURL this morning, I noticed that it is blocked by the Web Intelligence service, just like one of the supported browsers…

Is this by design? If so, where can we find a list of applications or services that are protected by the Web Intelligence bundle? What about other command-line tools, or Mail.app, for example?

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    Specimen wrote:

    In the interest of full disclosure, I am a very active member of the Avast for Mac forum, and I just switched back to Sophos because Avast management has been pushing its developers to bundle other apps like their VPN solution and the like and they gather statistics from users (sites visited) via their browser extension for commercial benefit.

    Welcome back to the Sophos community. Appreciate the feedback and support, always nice to connect directly with users.

    And, in the interest of full disclosure, we DO NOT collect information about the sites that you visit. We don't collect any personally identifable information. There are some basic stats sent to Sophos, things like the version of the software installed, the version of OS X its running on, etc. but its 100% anonymous.

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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    Specimen wrote:

    In the interest of full disclosure, I am a very active member of the Avast for Mac forum, and I just switched back to Sophos because Avast management has been pushing its developers to bundle other apps like their VPN solution and the like and they gather statistics from users (sites visited) via their browser extension for commercial benefit.

    Welcome back to the Sophos community. Appreciate the feedback and support, always nice to connect directly with users.

    And, in the interest of full disclosure, we DO NOT collect information about the sites that you visit. We don't collect any personally identifable information. There are some basic stats sent to Sophos, things like the version of the software installed, the version of OS X its running on, etc. but its 100% anonymous.

    :1021414

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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