Editing An Existing Application Control Rule; Turning Off Application Control Pop-Ups - F-SECURE CLIENT SECURITY 9.00 Administrator's Manual

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In this example select Root.
b) When the rule is ready, click Finish.
The new rule is now displayed in the
applications reported by hosts
5. Click

Editing an existing application control rule

In this example, the rule created earlier is edited to allow the use of Internet Explorer 4 temporarily for testing
purposes in a subdomain called Engineering/Testing.
1. Select the rule to be edited:
a) Go to the
b) Select the rule which you want to edit in
c) Click
2. Edit the application rule type:
a) Select the action to take when the application acts as a client and tries to make an outbound connection.
In this case select
b) Select the action to take when the application acts as a server and an inbound connection attempt is
made.
3. Select the message shown to users.
Select whether a message is shown to users when a connection attempt is made.
4. Select the new rule target:
a) Select the domain or host that the rule affects.
In this case select Engineering/Testing.
If the target host or domain already has a rule for any of the applications affected by the rule, you are
prompted to select whether to proceed and overwrite the existing rule at the host.
b) When the rule is ready, click Finish.
The modified rule is now displayed in the
of the original rule with the changes you just made.
5. Click

Turning off application control pop-ups

When you want to configure application control in such a way that it is totally transparent to the end users,
all pop-ups have to be turned off.
1. Select
2. Go to the
On this page select:
• Allow
• Allow
3. When creating any application control rules with the
• Either
rule type
• No message
to save and distribute the policy.
Settings tab and select the
Edit to start the application control rule wizard.
Allow for Act as client
to save and distribute the policy.
Root on the Policy domains
Settings tab and select the
from the Default action for server applications
from the Default action for client applications
Allow or Deny as the action on incoming and outgoing connection attempts in the
dialog box.
in the Message shown to users
Application rules for known applications
table has been refreshed.
Application control page.
Application rules for known
(out).
Application rules for known applications
tab.
Application control page.
drop-down list.
drop-down list.
Application control rule
dialog box.
table. The Unknown
applications.
table. It is a copy
wizard, select:
Application