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Web Protection
Web Protection module scans the website content for specific words or phrases. It lets you block websites containing pornographic or offensive content. Administrators can use this feature to prevent employees from accessing non-work related websites
during preferred duration.
You can configure the following settings.
Filtering Options
This tab has predefined categories that help you control access to the Internet.
Status
This section lets you allow or block access to specific websites based on Filter Categories. You can set the status as Active or Block web access. Select the Block Web Access option if you want to block all the websites except the ones that have been listed in the Filter Categories. When you select this option, only Filtering Options and Pop-up Filter tabs are available.
Filter Categories
This section uses the following color codes for allowed and blocked websites.
Green
It represents an allowed websites category.
Red
It represents a blocked websites category.
The filter categories used in this section include categories like Pornography, Gambling, Chat, Alcohol, Violence, Drugs, Ratings_block_category, Websites Allowed, etc. You can also add or delete filter categories depending on your requirement.
Category Name
This section shows the Words/Phrases list. It lists the words or phrases present in the selected category. In addition, the section displays the Site Names list, which lists the websites belonging to the selected category. You can also add or delete filter categories depending on your requirement.
Filter Options
This section includes the Add sites rejected by the filter to Block category check box. Select this option if you want eScan to add websites that are denied access to the Block category database automatically.
Scanning Options
This tab lets you enable log violations and shutdown program if it violates policies. It also lets you specify ports that need monitoring.
Actions
This section lets you select the actions that eScan should perform when it detects a security violation.
Log Violations Default]
This check box is selected by default. Select this option if you want Web Protection to log all security violations for your future reference.
Shutdown Program in 30 Secs
Select this option if you want Web Protection to shut down the browser automatically in 30 seconds when any of the defined rules or policies is violated.
Port Setting
This section lets you specify the port numbers that eScan should monitor for suspicious traffic.
Internet Access (HTTP Port)
Web browsers commonly use the port numbers 80, 8080, 3128, 6588, 4480, and 88 for accessing the Internet. You can add port numbers to the Internet Access (HTTP Port) box to monitor the traffic on those ports.
Define Time Restriction
This section lets you define policies to restrict access to the Internet.
Enable Time Restrictions for Web Access
Select this option if you want to set restrictions on when a user can access the Internet. By default, all the fields appear dimmed. The fields are available only when you select this option.
The time restriction feature is a grid-based module. The grid is divided into columns based on the days of the week vertically and the time interval horizontally.
Active
Click Active and select the appropriate grid if you want to keep web access active on certain days for a specific interval.
Inactive
Select this option if you want to keep web access inactive on certain days for a specific interval.
Block Web Access
Select this option if you want to block web access on certain days for a specific interval.
Phishing and Malware URL Filter
Under Web Protection eScan also provides options to enable Phishing and Malware filters which will detect and prevent any phishing attempts on the system and block all malware attacks.
To enable the filters, select Start and then select the respective check boxes.
Advanced Settings
Clicking Advanced displays Advanced Settings.
Enable HTTPS Popup (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable HTTPS pop-ups.
Enable HTTP Popup (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable HTTP pop-ups.
Block EXE download from HTTP Sites (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable block download of .exe files from HTTP websites.
Block Microsoft EDGE Browser (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable blocking Microsoft Edge browser.
Enable Web Protection using Filter driver (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable web protection using filter driver.
Force Disable Web Protection using Filter driver (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to force enable/disable web protection using filter driver.
WFP Exclude IP List (1 = Enable/0 = Disable)
Select this option to enable/disable excluding IP list from Web Filter Protection.
