Proxy mode and flow mode antivirus and web filter profile options

Proxy mode and flow mode antivirus and web filter profile options

The following tables list the antivirus and web filter profile options available in proxy and flow modes.

 

Antivirus features in proxy and flow mode  
Feature Proxy Flow
 

Scan Mode (Quick or Full)

 

no

 

yes

 

Detect viruses (Block or Monitor)

 

yes

 

yes

 

Inspected protocols

 

yes

 

no (all relevant protocols are inspected)

 

Inspection Options

 

yes

 

yes (not available for quick scan mode)

 

Treat Windows Executables in Email Attachments as Viruses

 

yes

 

yes

 

Include Mobile Malware Protection

 

yes

 

yes

 

Web Filter features in proxy and flow mode

 

Feature                                                                                                       Proxy  Flow
 

FortiGuard category based filter                                                                         yes       yes (show, allow, monitor, block)

 

Category Usage Quota                                                                                       yes       no

 

Allow users to override blocked categories (on some models)                            yes       no

 

Search Engines                                                                                                   yes       no

   

Enforce ‘Safe Search’ on Google, Yahoo!, Bing,      yes       no

Yandex

 

YouTube Education Filter                                        yes       no

 

Log all search keywords                                           yes       no

 

Static URL Filter                                                                                                  yes       yes

   

Block invalid URLs                                                   yes       no

 

URL Filter                                                                yes       yes

 

Block malicious URLs discovered by FortiSand-      yes       yes box

 

Web Content Filter                                                  yes       yes

 

Rating Options                                                                                                    yes       yes

   

Allow websites when a rating error occurs               yes       yes

 

Rate URLs by domain and IP Address                     yes       yes

 

Block HTTP redirects by rating                                yes       no

 

Rate images by URL                                               yes       no

 

Proxy Options                                                                                                      yes       no

Feature Proxy  Flow

Restrict Google account usage to specific domains

Provide details for blocked HTTP 4xx and 5xx errors

yes       no

yes       no

HTTP POST Action                                                 yes       no

 

Remove Java Applets Remove ActiveX                   yes       no

 

Remove Cookies                                                     yes       no

 

Filter Per-User Black/White List                               yes       no

 

 

 

 

 


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