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Users receive "The file is being scanned for sensitive material. Please Wait"

Hello All,

Hopefully someone can assist with this.  A few of our clients at remote locations are getting a message I'm assuming related to the data control module when they open Outlook.

"The file is being scanned for sensitive material.  Please Wait"

First is there any way for this not to be presented?

Second we only monitor file transfers (Microsoft Office documents, presentations, adobe documents, etc) - log and allow transfer -  to Outlook so why is it actually scanning upon starting Outlook up?  I've tried uninstalling sophos and reinstalling but the same behavior comes back.  Again - this only occurs on a handful of clients. 

I do not have the policy configured to scan for any personally identifiable information....we only want to know if a file is being copied and to which application (outlook, IE, firefox, etc).  And we'd like for it to occur in the background without displaying this huge message on the users screen.  :)

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  • Hello kesm0724,

    funny you mention it because I've seen this splash two days ago. Didn't find anything in the logs.

    I don't have Outlook - so it also happens for other applications. Could have been when I started Firefox (I have one rule set for monitoring browser uploads). Similar rules are in place for about 100 clients in our domain and there Outlook is used. Either this screen doesn't pop up or our users just ignore it without asking or complaining :smileywink:.

    But perhaps John Stringer could tell us more about it - what causes it to appear, how it can be suppressed and whether it'd be a good idea to do so or not.  

    Christian

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  • Hello kesm0724,

    funny you mention it because I've seen this splash two days ago. Didn't find anything in the logs.

    I don't have Outlook - so it also happens for other applications. Could have been when I started Firefox (I have one rule set for monitoring browser uploads). Similar rules are in place for about 100 clients in our domain and there Outlook is used. Either this screen doesn't pop up or our users just ignore it without asking or complaining :smileywink:.

    But perhaps John Stringer could tell us more about it - what causes it to appear, how it can be suppressed and whether it'd be a good idea to do so or not.  

    Christian

    :3154
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