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Add Anti-malware policies

Updated
This article applies only to On-Premise Appliance, not to our Cloud products.

 

After you turn on Anti-malware, set up Anti-malware policies to decide what content to scan for malware threats.

Before you begin

Anti-malware scanning is resource-intensive. To avoid over-scanning, decide what content needs scanning or limit your policies to those listed in Default Anti-malware policies.

Create Anti-malware policies

  Tip

Create a Policy folder to manage your policies more easily.

 

  1. Go to Guardian > Anti-malware > Policy wizard or Manage policies and select Create a new policy.
  2. Fill in each field using the Add or Remove buttons. Select Next or the down arrow to expand each step.
  1. In the Who section, select who the policy applies to. Select either:
    • Everyone to apply to all users.
    • One or more User Groups.
    • The single user icon and enter a username. This option can only be set up in On-Premise Appliance, but is synced to Cloud Filter and applied using Cloud Filter Extension, Smoothwall Browser or Android Filter App.
  1. In the What section, select the type of content to be actioned by the policy. Select either:

  Important

To prevent issues with the policy not applying or (if applied to Everything), having unintended effects, you must make sure your policies are targeted to the right thing. Check what to target using the Categories list and Content Modifications list.

  1. In the Where section, select where the policy should apply. Select either:
  1. Use the Action selector to choose how the policy should work:
      • Scan: Smoothwall scans files and either downloads them or blocks the download if it contains malware.
      • Do not scan: Smoothwall skips scanning, and all files are downloaded.
  1. Ensure the Enable policy checkbox is selected.
  2. Select Confirm.
  3. On the next page, select Save.

Go to Guardian > Anti-malware > Manage policies to see the new policy at the bottom of the policy table. You can reorder, turn off, edit or delete policies and folders.