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Web Protection blocking websites categorized as Spyware.

I'm trying to reach a legit website but Sophos Web Protection is stating:

  • Your organization's policy prohibits access to websites categorized as Spyware.

I've added the site to the "web control customizations" and tagged it as "Allowed Websites" which have the action of "allow" in the base policy.

I've updated the client and waited 24 hours and I can still not access the site.

I've submitted the requets for reclassification to Sophos, but that states up to 5 days.

Am I missing something? Surely there should be a way to override the classifications, I thought adding the exception would work - am I doing something wrong?



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  • The spyware cat isn't web control it's web protection.

    Have you tried adding a website exclusion under either the base policy explicitly or globally under: cloud.sophos.com/.../global-exclusions.

    Policy changes should only take around 20 seconds to reach the endpoint.  For web control you can check under the following location for the policy fragments:
    \program data\sophos\web control\policies\ for Windows. The other exclusions will end up creating entries in machine.xml under: \programdata\sophos\sophos anti-virus\config\

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  • The spyware cat isn't web control it's web protection.

    Have you tried adding a website exclusion under either the base policy explicitly or globally under: cloud.sophos.com/.../global-exclusions.

    Policy changes should only take around 20 seconds to reach the endpoint.  For web control you can check under the following location for the policy fragments:
    \program data\sophos\web control\policies\ for Windows. The other exclusions will end up creating entries in machine.xml under: \programdata\sophos\sophos anti-virus\config\

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