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Oh, WebSense sucks big time! Maybe not WebSense itself, but at least the people configuring the setup we're going through. Our main network goes through WebSense and when they first implemeted it, it was blocking even the major webmails. Later they were opened, but still even this BBS is blocked (Clubs and messageboards)... I remember one time, before this BBS was blocked, someone was linking to a site that had a case for the Karma (Innovacases, or something), and it was blocked as a MP3 site... Luckily we have two machines on a separate network that doesn't go through WebSense.

Stig


It's good here... in general.

The other day the powers above us took advantage of the situation. When they found a virus on the network they blocked all categories so we couldn't even download our virus definition updates. It would have been nice to have some notification!

I also think they are mistaken in their interpretation of the log files. I was just looking them over again and I noticed that the application listed is POP3. All outgoing email uses SMTP (correct???). On a few computers I checked the virus scanner logs and viruses were removed from computers by the virus scanner as the email was downloaded. None of the computers were found to have any viruses on them using Norton's full scan, Norton's Netsky removel tool and McAfee's Stinger virus removal tool.

I am sniffing the network traffic using TCPDump (thanks wfaulk!!!) but I truly don't expect to find anything.

Thanks for all the help guys!

Rene
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