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October 2011 - Posts

Streaming traffic being flagged
Published Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:37 AM by General
It seems that after upgrading our Websense components to 7.6.2, I have seen an extreme increase in high severity incidents that are being flagged as "Encrypted File: Encrypted data of unknown format" that happens to be streaming content from...

DC agent permissions
Published Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:21 AM by Websense Web Security
Why does the DC agent need domain/enterprise admin permissions in version 7.6? Our existing environment (7.1 for Web and 7.5 for Data Security) is able to do this with just a regular account....
Automatic Hotfix updates
Published Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:54 AM by Websense Web Security
I think it would be great if the Websense Web Security products had a feature built in to view, download, and install hotfixes relative to the version you are administering....

Advertisement Filtering Blocking
Published Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:16 AM by General
We migraded from surfcontrol to websense 7.6 and I am currently working to make the case to management to block advertisements because they ad little or no value to business, are a key source of malware, and utilize considerable bandwidth. After reading...
Policy for common copyrighted material
Published Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:57 AM by General
Our client is looking for a policy that can detect copyrighted movies and music. They would like to ensure there is no pirated content on their network. We could do this with file type content classifiers but this could potentially create an abundance...

Did category for news website video change?
Published Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:49 PM by General
I could've sworn that videos on news websites (such as www.cnn.com/video ) were categorized "News and Media" at one time, but now they are considered "Streaming Media". Is this a recent change? We recently converted from Bluecoats...
all users block
Published Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:14 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
All of our users are receivng a block message on all site browsing even the google sit that we never block. This run for 10 minute ad everythin goes well for the rest of the day. It is like Websens is using our default policie that block everything. In...

AD user permissions required to query the Global Catalogue Server (s)
Published Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:32 AM by Configuration and Administration
Hi All, Wonder if there is anyone who can answer this question. Been trying to make a stripped down service account that can be used to query the catalogue server to setup policy’s for users. Seems like the only way I can get it to work in either...
Changing Logo for Investigative reports output to PDF
Published Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:41 AM by Configuration and Administration
Hi Support We have a v5000 appliance with the manager running on a Windows 2008 Server. We are currently running version 7.6. Is there an option to change the Websense logo displayed in PDF reports outputted through investigative reports....

Websense Filtering stops Working
Published Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:37 AM by General
Hi Hope someone can help, I have a Websense 7.5.0 installation on an ISa server, the policy service is on the same box as ISA but the reporting and SQL is on a separate server. This setup has been workng esceptionally well for more than a year until about...