1. Sophos Web Login

Web protection keeps your company safe from attacks that result from web browsing and helps you increase productivity. You can define browsing restrictions with categories, URL groups, and file types. By adding these restrictions to policies, you can block websites or display a warning message to users. For example, you can block access to social networking sites and executable files. General settings let you specify scanning engines and other types of protection. Exceptions let you override protection as required for your business needs.

• The Sophos Web Appliance is designed to function as a web proxy that provides HTTP security at the gateway. Potentially risky content is scanned for various forms of malware. URL requests are compared to the Sophos site list, in which sites are assigned a risk class and a site category.
• Web pages that result in anonymous Web browsing without the explicit intent to provide such a service. This category includes URL translators, Web page caching, or other utilities that may function as anonymizers, but without the express purpose of bypassing filtering software.

To change Sophos Web Protection settings:

1. Click Home > Anti-virus and HIPS > Configure anti-virus and HIPS > Configure > Web protection.
2. To block or unblock access to malicious websites, next to Block access to malicious websites, select On or Off. This option is enabled by default.
   For information on how to authorize a website that is classified as malicious, see Authorize a website for use.
3. To enable or disable scanning of downloaded data and files, next to Content scanning, select As on-access scanning, On, or Off.
   By default, As on-access scanning is selected, that is, content scanning is disabled or enabled simultaneously with on-access scanning.
4. To change what happens when a file with low or unknown reputation is downloaded, under Download reputation, next to Action, select either Prompt user (default) or Log only.
   • If you select Prompt user, every time a low reputation file is downloaded, an alert will be displayed, informing about this and asking whether to block or allow the download. We recommend that you do not download such files. If you trust the file's source and publisher, you can choose to download the file. The choice to block or allow the download and the file's URL will be recorded in the scanning log.
   • If you select Log only, no alert will be displayed; the download will be allowed and recorded in the scanning log.
5. To choose how rigorous you want reputation scanning to be, next to Threshold, select Recommended (default) or Strict.
   • If you select Recommended, an alert will be displayed and/or a log record created every time a file with low or unknown reputation is downloaded.
   • If you select Strict, an alert will be displayed and/or a log record created every time a file with low, unknown, or medium reputation is downloaded.

For more information about download reputation, see knowledgebase article 121319.

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Sophos Web Login

For information about viewing the scanning log, see View the scanning log.