SonicWALL Anti-Spyware Administrator's Guide

Setting Up SonicWALL Anti-Spyware Protection
Activating the SonicWALL Anti-Spyware license on your SonicWALL security appliance does not
automatically enable anti-spyware protection. To configure SonicWALL Anti-Spyware to begin protecting
your network, you need to perform the following steps:
1. Enable SonicWALL Anti-Spyware on your SonicWALL security appliance
2. Specify Global Spyware Danger Level Protection
3. Apply SonicWALL Anti-Spyware Protection to Interfaces or Zones
Once you configured these basic anti-spyware protection settings, you can perform additional
configuration options to tailor SonicWALL Spyware protection for your network environment.
Selecting Security Services > Anti-Spyware displays the configuration settings for SonicWALL
Anti-Spyware on your SonicWALL security appliance.
The Anti-Spyware page is divided into three sections:
• Anti-Spyware Status - displays status information on the state of the signature database, your
SonicWALL Anti-Spyware license, and other information.
• Anti-Spyware Global Settings - provides the key settings for enabling SonicWALL Anti-Spyware on
your SonicWALL security appliance, specifying global SonicWALL Anti-Spyware protection based on
three classes of spyware, and other configuration options.
• Anti-Spyware Policies - allows you to view SonicWALL Anti-Spyware signatures and configure the
handling of signatures by category groups or on a signature by signature basis. Categories are
signatures grouped together based on the product or manufacturer.
Alert! After activating your SonicWALL Anti-Spyware license, you must enable and configure SonicWALL
Anti-Spyware on the SonicWALL management interface before anti-spyware policies are applied to
your network traffic.
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