Important note about SSL VPN compatibility for 20.0 MR1 with EoL SFOS versions and UTM9 OS. Learn more in the release notes.

  • IPS and Application

    I have notice that the IPS and Application seem to not be working their is nothing listed in the logs of IPS and Application for the pass week no activity. I have tried nmap to try and trigger the rules of the ids and tried some of the applications…
  • IPS problem witch Adobe Reader downloading PDFs from Webserver

    Hello NG, We are using a Sophos SF SW/Virtual TotalProtect. For some days we have some problems with downloading PDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Foxit Reader works fine) In the IPS section we had "critical" and major "selected". The downloads are…
  • Can't select all IPS signatures

    Please check the attached screenshots. It's related to a bug/drawback in Sophos. Go to IPS Policies > Select a policy and click Add Try to search for "Malware" You will get "1807" results and you want to select all of them If you click the name…
  • Identifying IPS signatures being hit

    Here are some logs of IPS signatures being blocked or detected. I'd like to allow them. How is one supposed to find which sigature is actually being tripped? Date / Time Signatures Drop username LocalIP :TCP(54850) RemoteIP :TCP(8080) 20 Date / Time…
  • How i can disable IDS for ICMP

    Hi how can i disable the following entries in attacksreport? ICMP Ping ICMP Echo Reply ICMP Destination Unreachable Host Unreachable Why anybody by sophos mean this is an attack?
  • IPS Signature Block the Legitimate Traffic of Websites

    Hi, Anybody Facing the Issue after 6th May 2016 IPS definitions upgraded from 3.12.71 to 3.12.72. we are not able to open banking websites also other government website which contains login page. if you have workaround, please share us as soon as…
  • RE: How to disable snort_decoder rules?

    Uh, the problem seems to has fixed itself. All the erroneous "IPv4 broadcast" packet drops have stopped. It seems to coincide with the outside interface (I'm in bridge mode) bouncing because the upstream router was restarted. The last bad message…
  • RE: How to disable snort_decoder rules?

    Hi... same problem here... as a side effect, my virtual machines running on my macbook (VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox) can not obtain ip address via DHCP if they have nic bridged to airport wifi... ((--)) = wifi <--> = cable guest vm nic in bridge…
  • How to disable snort_decoder rules?

    How do you disable snort_decoder rules? Like this: They don't show up in the Signature lists. I know how to disable Individual Signatures, but the decoder don't show up. I've even disabled the entire Misc category and it does not disable these…
  • Why ICMP traffic originated by the appliance is logged in IPS?

    The IPS continuously logs the detection of an ICMP ('host unreacheable') whose source is the firewall itself, marking it as reconnaissance attack. The ICMP is originated because of an host in one zone that trie to contact a switched-off host in another…
  • Why does IPS prevent outgoing RDP and SSH connections?

    Hi! I'm trying to figure out why XG installation refuses LAN clients to make RDP or SSH connection to WAN servers. Whenever I try such a connection, the packet sniffer first logs a correct connection request (dest. port 3389, for example) originating…
  • RE: Edit/Delete Default IPS Rules - Feature Request

    I think you should alternatively consider storing the non-modifiable built-in rules as templates rather than non-modifiable rules, and that way they can be stored (taking up the minimal-bloat megabytes of space) and be available as baselines to admins…
  • Guidelines for using Pre-defined IPS policies

    I'm wondering how the modifiable IPS policies relate to the non-modifiable policies and what the recommendations are for using them. The first six seem clear enough (DMZ TO LAN, LAN TO WAN, etc.), assuming you have these standard zones set up, and I assume…
  • RE: XG Firewall Maintenance Release MR-1.1

    Too high CPU load in IPS configuration. 99.9% in XG85.
  • Roku triggering IPS rule 1100016 LOIC DoS Tool (TCP Traffic) threshold

    I think this is a false positive as the number of 'attacks' are pretty low and it is going to two AWS ip addresses. How do I determine if this really is a false positive and fix this? Thanks!
  • VLAN Traffic getting dropped?

    I am having an issue with my Voice VLAN traffic apparently getting dropped in the IPS logs at least according to what I am seeing? How do I prevent this traffic from being dropped? I have the static route in place. 2016-02-08 14:09:05 …
  • How to disable IPS for LAN->VPN traffic?

    Hi! Does anyone if I can completely disable IPS for LAN->VPN traffic? I'm running a network monitoring tool which pings a few dozens of hosts inside my LAN and the XG somehow identifies this a network attack / intrusion, resulting in about 1000 "reconnaissance…