Download Insight in SEP 12.1
Hello Everyone,
Auto-Protect includes a feature that is called Download Insight, which examines the files that users try to download through Web browsers, text messaging clients, and other portals.
Supported portals include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger.
Download Insight determines that a downloaded file might be a risk based on evidence about the file's reputation. Download Insight is supported only for the clients that run on Windows computers.
You can enable or disable Download Insight and change how sensitive Download Insight is to potentially malicious files. You can also specify the additional criteria that Download Insight uses when it makes a decision about a file. Use these settings to help control the number of false positive detections.
You might want to customize Download Insight settings to decrease false positive detections on client computers. You can change how sensitive Download Insight is to the file reputation data that it uses to characterize malicious files. You can also change the notifications that Download Insight displays on client computers when it makes a detection
Few Helpful Articles:
Customizing Download Insight settings
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55253
Why in spite of having Download Insight and Autoprotect enabled in SEP client 12.1, some files are only detect after being downloaded?
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH162233
Managing Download Insight detections
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55252
“Expected behavior of Download Insight”
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH171776
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Hi,
Thanks for the info..iam having one doubt..whether it will affect the performance if we turned ON both insight and auto protect?
Thanks & Regards,
Srikanth.S
"Defeat the Defeat before the Defeat Defeats you"
(Swami Vivekananda)
Hi,
It won't degrade the performance.
Chetan Savade
Technical Support Engineer, Endpoint Security
Enterprise Technical Support
CCNA | CCNP | MCSE | SCTS |
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Hi Chetan,
Is chrome support on the roadmap? (We have many web devs using chrome)
Cheers
Tim
Hi,
Supported Web browsers are as per the following.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, or 10
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6 through 15.0.1
• Google Chrome, through 22.0.1229.79
Note: This list of supported browsers applies to the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager only. For a list of supported browsers for Browser Intrusion Prevention, please see Supported Browser versions for Browser Intrusion Prevention
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH174537
Also check this article.
System Requirements for Symantec Endpoint Protection, Enterprise and Small Business Editions, and Network Access Control 12.1.2
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH195325
Chetan Savade
Technical Support Engineer, Endpoint Security
Enterprise Technical Support
CCNA | CCNP | MCSE | SCTS |
Don't forget to mark your thread as 'SOLVED' with the answer that best helps you.&
Thanks for the fast response, the information you have provided is very useful.
Thanks
Tim
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