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Disabling Web Content Scanner.

JaffNSX

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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    I did some testing on this following on QC suggestion and using the fake virus download.

    Within Enterprise Console and within the anti virus and hips policy.

    "Web scanner is:" if selected to off disables the plugin in IE.

    However do not be fooled as the plugin within IE is still saying enabled which is a big lie as it is disabled.

    You can test this by QC post, using the dummy file, turning the content scanner off within enterprise console. You need to give it some time for the machines to update the policy though.

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    I did some testing on this following on QC suggestion and using the fake virus download.

    Within Enterprise Console and within the anti virus and hips policy.

    "Web scanner is:" if selected to off disables the plugin in IE.

    However do not be fooled as the plugin within IE is still saying enabled which is a big lie as it is disabled.

    You can test this by QC post, using the dummy file, turning the content scanner off within enterprise console. You need to give it some time for the machines to update the policy though.

    :1631
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