SonicOS 7.1 Rules and Policies for Classic Mode

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Forbidden File Type Control

You can use App Rules to prevent risky or forbidden file types (for example, exe, vbs, scr, dll, avi, mov) from being uploaded or downloaded.

To prevent risky or forbidden file types from being uploaded or downloaded

  1. Navigate to OBJECT | Match Objects > Match Objects.
  2. Click +Add.

  3. Create an object like this one:

  4. Navigate to OBJECT | Action Objects > App Rule Actions.

  5. Click +Add.

  6. Create an action like this one.

To create a policy that uses this object and action

  1. Navigate to POLICY | Rules and Policies > App Rules.
  2. Click +Add.

  3. Create a policy like this one:

  4. To test this policy, you can open a Web browser and try to download any of the file types specified in the match object (exe, vbs, scr). Here are a few URLs that you can try:

    http://download.skype.com/SkypeSetup.exe
    http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/msgr8us.exe
    http://g.msn.com/8reen_us/EN/INSTALL_MSN_MESSENGER_DL.EXE

    You will see an alert similar to this one:

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