Found a conversation here about the same problem 6 month ago, but I can't read a solution. My firewall is reporting a lot of Torrent P2P users in my network and block the application. In the same time users reports that they can't read mail on iPhone…

So I attempted to get the application control working based on this article: https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/recommended-reads/120242/sophos-xg-firewall-how-to-create-an-exception-in-application-filter but I could not get this to work…

Just found out that the fire vpn chrome extension, just bypassed my expensive firewall. Looking for suggestions?

Hi folks, sometime in the last 6 weeks I started a thread on classification errors. I have been doing some further investigation and found thane was wrong and needed to be corrected. I have searched all my activities and not been able to find the initial…

A while after updating to 18.5.0 MR1 this morning, we noticed we're not getting incoming mail from Apple iCloud. I kept assuming it's an issue with TLS or something, but email worked on my iPhone when I turned off WiFi and went with cellular. In the…

Hi, In my organization I want to block Portable Apps. But the issue is that I am not sure as to at which time which user will download which Portable App, so using Application Filtering is of no use as per my requirement., because application is not…

Hi, I'd think source and destination IP is wrong here. It took me some time to help a user who reported he cannot download a file, we blocked because I could not find his computer with my query for source IP. We block executabled here. …

Hello Good Day! need some help its kind a weird that i observe on my xg firewall after i updated to latest firmware version.. before the update, all my policy is working find, the web policy and application policy but know is something puzzle on my…

Hello, I try to create an application filter which blocks some categories with defined exceptions. There is a article how to set this up: https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/recommended-reads/120242/sophos-xg-firewall-how-to-create…

Hello, I turned on traffic filtering on our firewall and am trying to identify the traffic that Sophos is Labeling pCloud. There is a pCloud.com Backup and storage When I attempt to login connect to one of the hosts https://52.20.148.96/ it throws a…

Dears I have a problem with my XG-Sophos application filter, I created an application control policy to prevent X-VPN, Thunder VPN and VPN Lighter apps , but still those apps allowed, when i check the log viewer i found them allowed

To Whom It May Concern I've been trying to block all cloud storage drives accessed from our corporate network except for OneDrive. I tested the implementation using my personal iCloud account after the implementation on our Sophos XG firewall of the…

Dear All, I have a problem with Psiphon VPN Application that end users using it in mobile devices bypassing our hotspot Login portal page. Can you please help me to stop that application. Thanks

Hello all, I have an ios device connected to my XG Firewall using SSL VPN with OpenVPN the VPN is a full tunnel therefore all traffic are passed through the XG FIrewall I created an application policy to block whatsApp, Facebook and instagram and…

I have a problem with Sophos XG home firewall, from recently internet connection getting too much slow as a comparison to previous. So I check with it ISP and their side wasn't any problem. (also I bypassed the firewall and connected my laptop directly…

Hi, is it possible to nest web application rules? Take this little Chart: I would like to allow different applications to different users on the XG Firewall based on their user heartbeat. So the idea is to create several rules for each application…

HI Friends, I wanted to only block Windows 10 Microsoft stores and its new application download through XG. any idea how this is possible?

Just making sure i'm not going mad..... with the exception of our IT admins, all the google apps just started to get blocked (Which was fun considering we're a Google site). Traced it to application control and had to create a new rule to all the…

Hi, today i accendently deleted the Level 4 "High Risk" Application list when i tried to delete a "allowed" filter i set previosly. is there any way to recover the default list? Tanks :)

Hi community, Today I'm having a strange situation where I can't access some YouTube videos when I'm using a web browser differents to Google Chrome when the allow all for app or web filter on the FW rule is enable. Once the app and web filter fields…

I am using XG Firewall. Is there a way to set app filter action to detect/monitor? The default action for app filter only has 2 options (allow/deny) which is very difficult to do tuning while not impacting user to access internet.

I have a LAN subnet and a separate Wifi subnet. I've created two rules to allow each subnet to talk to the WAN connection and all of that appears to be working well. I have an additional rule to allow the LAN to communicate with Wifi; but Wifi cannot…

Hello, It's possible to create a rule to allow only one application? for example WhatsApp. I tried, but the rule allows extra traffic

Hi all, I just found out that the box are unable to filter the traffic which i have denied on the box, it just happen out of sudden. Previously it is working fine, on what i have checked the category all seems become uncategorized. Please refer…

Hello, I think that I might just not doing it right, but I cannot for the love of god, create an application filter which has it's default action set to "Deny". If I go to Applications -> Application Filters -> Add I can enter the following: Name…