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So... why are NVIDIA drivers suddenly taboo to download?

Amodin

Not changed a thing on XG, even downloaded these drivers, using the same application, several times in the past. For the first time in weeks, I haven't had to mess with anything.  This worked just fine before.

I even have a 'Safe Downloading' exception for NVIDIA, yet the firewall is denying the download.  Today, the moon or the sun, or someone screwing with something must be the issue.  Had this happen before on UTM with Windows Updates, and then it magically fixed itself days later. 

What prompts this behavior to change and decide, "Oh well today I think it's okay, so I'm going to allow a download.  Yesterday didn't work for me."

I really don't understand this logic with the firewall.

messageid="16002" log_type="Content Filtering" log_component="HTTP" log_subtype="Denied" fw_rule_id="5" fw_rule_name="#Default_Network_Policy" fw_rule_section="Local rule" user="" user_group="" web_policy_id="12" web_policy="Default Policy" category="Download Freeware & Shareware" category_type="Objectionable" url="">international-gfe.download.nvidia.com" content_type="" override_token="" src_ip="172.18.0.98" dst_ip="192.229.211.70" protocol="TCP" src_port="63610" dst_port="443" bytes_sent="0" bytes_received="0" domain="international-gfe.download.nvidia.com" exception="" activity_name="" reason="" user_agent="" status_code="403" transaction_id="" referer="" download_file_name="" download_file_type="" upload_file_name="" upload_file_type="" con_id="3501233152" app_name="" app_is_cloud="0" override_name="" override_authorizer="" used_quota="0"


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  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    The lazy administrator would probably isolate it as much as you did to allow it but no other Shareware/Freeware, and maybe make a post about it for support to see.

    The ones that cry foul add it to their list of reasons why they curse the software daily when they login, lol. But they have no other choice because it won't change.

    My wife would be considered a subject matter expert in risk mitigation and forensic scheduling related to construction, and her scheduling software is such a joke, she has to box with it enough to make it right without compromising the integrity of the schedule so it can still be empirically proven. Oracle owns the software, and they bought it with absolutely no idea how it works and why it has some of the dumbest logic in the software that would never be used in the industry - yet they won't take it out because of hurt pride and all (my opinion shared amongst a lot of others).

    At any rate, off-track.  I'll stop here, shrug my shoulders and move ahead with other plans.

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  • 0 in reply to Amodin

    Check Intelix now: https://intelix.sophos.com/ 

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  • 0 in reply to Amodin
    Amodin said:
    The lazy administrator would probably isolate it as much as you did to allow it but no other Shareware/Freeware, and maybe make a post about it for support to see.

    so in other words they would make an exception in the web filter to allow downloads.nvidia.com or allow the freeware and shareware category just like what the manual and Sophos Assistant tells you to do. I can't think of any other way around it.

    Now us.downloads.nvidia.com is classified as Software Updates,

    and downloads.nvidia.com is classified as Information Technology

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Essentially i gave this URL to the Labs to get categorized. 

    Using this: support.sophos.com/.../filesubmission

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