A user came to me with a website that was loading text but not images. Copying the image URL and pasting it to a new browser tab gave a Sophos block message, with the option to bypass. I looked in the live log and the images were being loaded from a URL…
Is there a way to change the granularity of usage time selections from anything other than 10 minutes, like 5 minutes?
For example, A 30 minute quota, with a 5 minute window, would allow 6 quick visits a day, instead of only 3 for 10 minutes.
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I wonder if anyone noticed same problem. Recently (I am on 9.353 home license) I was trying to download some Windows Server ISO for evaluation and was struggling to get it installed with various errors. Eventually found one forum stating that…
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i'm using the parent proxy for some websites, which should be routed through an external proxy server.
this worked for a long time now. Yesterday i needed changed the external proxy (squid3) to user authentication, because of several reasons…
So I am setting up my first Sophos Firewall and using a SG-135 running UTM9.
I am on an AD domain and have configured the UTM with AD SSO authentication. This is fine for our AD users and traffic is flowing fine and being logged.
However we have a…
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I've activated the web filtering in transparent mode on my UTM (now 9.352-6) a half year ago. Since then I realized that different websites take a long time to load sometimes. In this case the webbrowser shows "Waiting for answer...." and a white…
Okay, so I have setup the Web Filtering and using the transparent mode. I have added exceptions for Office 365 as we're using Microsoft Office 365 for SharePoint and Exchange. Which all has been working well and I cannot tell by the error what is occurring…
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I noticed that some pages are very slow since the upgrade to UTM 9.352-6. Don't know if this has to do with the upgrade. But today I also noticed many blocked packets from external hosts in the overview tab of "Network Protection". I did some…
I wanted to buy a CD from discogs.com. For some reason, sending messages and buying a CD from the shopping cart failed. I traced it to the UTM, which was blocking certain pages on their website as malicious. Most of the website seems to be fine.
Here…
Newbie, but playing around with Sophos UTM can see the powerful features it has to make some decisions on which UTM product to use going forward.
I see the MAC Address list functionality underneath Network Definitions and the ability to setup a firewall…
Hello guys i have a question about the Bypass blocking feature. When i add a user or a group of users everyone within the company gets a button called "Unblock URL (will be logged)" on the block page. Is it possible to show this buton only for users who…
I have enabled web protection on the Sophos UTM. the network the PC is on is in the network that is listed
here is the default policy
but when i go to a site that should be blocked (based on the policy test) it is not blocked. opened the like…
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I'm in the process of creating a couple new web filtering policies and I'm encountering some issues I haven't had to dealt with so far.
I have 4 web filtering policies + the base one and it is working OK - but all policies are for a different…
