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Firewall question

Jvuz

Hello,

I'm curious about the following. In our enterprise we have pc's and notebooks. Most of the notebooks have their (windows) firewall enabled. This gives problems for us, admins, to administer their machines. The reason that their firewalls are enabled is that the users have admin rights (i know, I know, but it's not my choice). Now I was wondering if their is a way to, when we would install the sophos firewall, disable the firewall when the notebooks are connected at work, and enabled when not. Is this possible and if so, how can I do this?

Jo

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    Hello Jo,

    you'll have to sort out the firewall (settings) and (mis- not ab-)using admin rights in the first place.

    SCF won't turn off the Windows firewall, is not "immune" against administrators and is not yet covered by Tamper Protection. It has a dual location feature though - meaning that different settings will be applied depending on the network the computer is connected to (detectable by DNS or primary gateway MAC and also "VPN aware").

    Christian

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    Hello Jo,

    you'll have to sort out the firewall (settings) and (mis- not ab-)using admin rights in the first place.

    SCF won't turn off the Windows firewall, is not "immune" against administrators and is not yet covered by Tamper Protection. It has a dual location feature though - meaning that different settings will be applied depending on the network the computer is connected to (detectable by DNS or primary gateway MAC and also "VPN aware").

    Christian

    :15401
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