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

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…

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…

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…

I am trying to add an exception to my Mail protection rules. Somehow i am not able to select existing IP Hosts. When i add one on the fly i can use that but i cannot alter that rule anymore as the used IP Host is not recognized. Is this a known bug…

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…

Hi I was wondering if the community could list common sites/apps that need a firewall exception. Sophos is pretty good at this now, but yeah I had an xg85w with mr16, can't wait to get my XG106W in 3 weeks Cheers

On my UTM firewall I was able to add a web exception like this: ^https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?gstatic\.com/ But on XG 18.0.4 if I try to enter this, I get an error "You must enter a valid domain name" I was able to slightly modify the regex by removing…

I have two Sophos XG330 (SFOS 18.0.3 MR-3). A page is blocked, which loads some more data from external pages. Error: Uncaught ReferenceError: YUI is not defined Cross-source (cross-origin) request blocked: The same-source rule prohibits reading the…

Hello, I have a false positive detection from Avira scanner for some url's. I don't want to exclude scanning for those url's as descried here: https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/nsg/sfos/concepts/WebExceptions…

Hello all, I've been looking for information about the correct way to use the web server module on XG but I couldn't find anything. Also ask to a Live support agent on chat and he didn't have any document that could help me. So, what I want to know…