We have a URL Filtering Exception for all apple.com traffic. See below. ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?apple\.com\.?/ Is it possible to craft/recreate the above to apply the exception to all apple.com traffic except music.apple.com ? Therefore blocking music…

Hello, Once that a policy checks exception has been created, can I ignore this same exception for a specific group by a firewall rule (it can be by a IP Range, IP list, networks, Host Group, by selecting an entire in interface... it doesnt 'matter)…

Hi everyone, I'm new to the XG and I'm running into an issue allowing an EXE download without any browser warnings. I first created an exception using under "web" --> "exceptions" that included a regex: ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?lumension\.com/ However…

So does anyone know if Sophos keeps this list updated when you download it ? Also , what happens if you have already uploaded it ? Does it only import the news ones if there are or does it duplicate it ? https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article…

Hi All, I try to add subnet network in Web exception, but it (example: 203.104.150.0/24 ) didn't work. So I have to bypass the subnet network in top firewall rule. Is there any way to bypass subnet network in Web exception? Shunze

In my home LAN I have an XG-125w with SFOS 18.5. My MacBook Pro had a corrupted disk so I had to erase it and do an internet reinstall of MacOS. This procedure downloads a new copy of the operating system and then installs it. To get started, I made a…

Hi. I have a rule for cut the acces on the internet for some pc's, but I need to configure my sophos to upgrade operating system and Windosw defender. I tried whith this list, but doesn't work, any idea or sugestion, please? ^.*windowsupdate\.microsoft…

SFVH (SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326) I found an old post that listed things to add to the web content exceptions. I noticed the third one in their list was missing from the exception that was apparently included in the appliance defaults, so I cloned…

Hello Everyone, We've had requests to block websites that contain Cyrillic characters, however whenever I attempt to do so in the Sophos interface it states it's an invalid URL. To avoid posting the full domain of the malicious site, an excerpt…

hi, i want to block all web sites to my users and allow certain website. for this i created allowed URL list in URL Group, called that URL group in web policy and then called that policy in Firewall policy. how can i allow anydesk and skype using web…

After implementing SFOS 18.5.1 I discovered Microsoft QUick Assist would not complete a connection, it just showed a rotating dots image. SFOS Log Viewer showed the Firewall blocked the application with Invalid Traffic. Sharing the Web Exceptions for…

Is there a recommend practice here to whitelist ? In the same way as you would add Hosts/subnets to make it easy to add/update, which would apply to any changes made in Firewall/SSLVPN etc.... does it make sense to create "exceptions" to websites, rather…

Hello, We use a Sophos XG 210 with SFOS 18.5.1 MR1 Build 326 For a couple of days now, I have gotten complaints that emails are blocked from hosts we never had issues with. So I dug around the extremely limited logs (it used to be much easier…

Hi, After having all kinds of problems with various Microsoft 365 systems, I finally found the KB article KB-000038173 "Sophos Firewall: Configure web exceptions for Office 365". After setting up these exception templates and activating them everything…

Good Day Is it now possible to add a wildcard domain e.g *.fsapi.com to be filtered out. regards Lovemore Gurungo

Under Web -> Exceptions the default Microsoft Windows Update exception is enabled. We have added a second one with some additional websites as per the Sophos KB. We have an allow firewall rule that allows traffic from any LAN source to the FQDN host…

Hey, I cannot test our XG with the test site, you are providing: https://sophostest.com/ I've asked this once but forgot. Today I wanted to verify something but could'nt even find the request in the web filter log. Of course, I could browse all the…

I have created a web rule to just blocking Sexual Explicit, Games and Advertisements. This prevents seeing comments in YouTube because devices (Android) put YouTube into Restricted mode saying administrator has blocked it. How do I allow the user…

Hello Gents, Good Day! I am new to the Sophos firewall, just upgraded last month to XG210. everything working fine except the billing app from our ISP called "Billexpress Client". I have provided below a download link to test it. when testing, if…

Hi community, There are rules applied for all the users, computers, tablets and cell phones in the network divided by ip numbers. These rules are; IPS, Web, Application. Is there any option for exceptions? What is the best practices to make a ip number…

Hi, i have noticed around 2 months ago, the google services are not working well, they are very slow, and i would like to try to add an exception for them, but I dont know how to do it, I saw this link support.google.com/.../9497877 but I dont understand…

Hello i have this website that is torturing me : https://tvs.bce.lt I added it to the web exception , added it to local category , etc but still it is not working if i allow all , it works , if i dont , i get extremely slowness and certificated…

I have Photocopiers set up on static IP Addresses on my Sophos XG 135. They are on lease with a company that has a URL for them to be in contact with in order for them to send new cartridges etc. So I have set up a firewall rule allowing the LAN IP…

Hi, I'm having issues accessing an http website. I've added an exception for the site to bypass all scanning filtering etc but I'm always presented with the website not available messages. The site works perfectly externally. I Also tried a firewall rule…

Hello, We have enabled all the Microsoft exclusions (downloaded and imported 2 days ago), but the macOS Outlook 2019 users getting these prompts: Any clues?