Disabling Web Content Scanner.

Question

Hi,

We are running endpoint security Version 4 and version 9 of sophos on the machines.

I need to globally disable the plugin within ie "sophos web content scanner"

When looking through endpoint security you would assume "web content scanning is:" option within antivirus and hips policy would disable that plugin.

So i selected it to "off"

and the ie plugin is still enabled.

I also found this article on the Sophos knowledge base but it is refering to a older version of sophos and i can not find the savconf.xml file it is refering to on this installation of endpoint.

sophos article

Has anyone got any ideas how i can disable this plugin centrally? Our machines are not logging onto a domain so a gpo will not work. Is it possible to amend a file like in the above article or anything else i can try?

Thanks,

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QC · Accepted Answer

Why do you want to disable the plugin? Is it causing troubles? Performance?

I think the "articles for older versions" still apply (if I follow the links in Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+: overview of web content scanning the most recent version mentioned is and above :smileywink: ). Funny (well, if you are easily amused) that neither SEC nor the client UI show you whether web scanning is active or not - at least I don't know how I could see it. All I found is the how to check article.

I think add-ons can be disabled using the registry (or local security policy)

Christian :1587