SonicWALL 4.5 Manuale Utente

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Enforced Client Product Guide

Using the Virus and Spyware Protection Service

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Managing detections 

To effectively manage your strategy for virus and spyware protection, we recommend that you 
proactively track the types of threats being detected and where they are occurring. 

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Manage potentially unwanted program detections (see 

) 

Manage your protection strategy with best practices 

1 Check your status emails or the SecurityCenter website for an overview of your account’s 

status. (See 

 to request status emails.) 

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Ensure that your computers are up-to-date. 

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Ensure that protection services are installed on all computers. 

2 Check the 

 report and 

 report regularly to see what is being 

detected (see 

 and 

). 

3 Check the 

 report frequently to monitor the programs that users are 

allowing on client computers. 

4 To centralize management and more easily monitor the types of programs allowed on client 

computers, define client security settings in a policy. 

5 If particular types of detections are occurring frequently or certain computers appear 

vulnerable, update the policy to resolve these issues. 

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Schedule scans or add exclusions (see 

). 

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Enable advanced scanning options (see 

). 

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Ensure that spyware protection is enabled (see 

). 

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For maximum protection, set your spyware protection to 

 mode to automatically 

clean potentially unwanted programs (see 

). 

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Enable all advanced spyware options (see 

6 Use “learn” mode to identify which programs to add to the 

 list, (see 

). This ensures that no required programs are deleted before you have the 

opportunity to authorize their use. Then change your protection mode to 

. 

7 View the 

 report periodically to discover trends specific to your network, and 

verify your strategy’s success in reducing detections. 

 mode is not the default setting. For maximum protection, create a policy that includes 

 mode.