Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Web filtering
Virus and malware filtering 6
Add a wildcard expression to a virus and malware filtering whitelist for user
agents
You can add a wildcard expression to a whitelist in a virus and malware filtering rule to exempt requests
from filtering when these are sent from clients with user agents that match the expression.
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, select the rule set that contains rules for virus and malware filtering, for example
Gateway Antimalware. The rules appear on the settings pane.
3 Find the rule that uses a whitelist to exempt requests sent with particular user agents from filtering,
for example, Allow if user agent matches in list User Agent Whitelist, and click on the list
name.
Note: A yellow triangle by the list name indicates that this list is empty and you need to fill the entries.
The Edit List (Wildcard Expression) window opens.
4 Click Add. The Add Wildcard Expression window opens.
5 In the Wildcard expression field, type a wildcard expression.
Note: To add multiple wildcard expressions at once, click Add multiple and type every wildcard
expression in a new line.
6 [Optional] In the Comment field, type a comment on the wildcard expression.
7 Click OK. The window closes and the wildcard expression appears on the whitelist.
8 Click Save Changes.
For more information on how to maintain a list, see List maintenance. For the types of wildcard
expressions that are allowed in the list, see Wildcard expressions.
Add a media type to a virus and malware filtering whitelist
You can add a media type to a whitelist to let web objects of this type skip virus and malware filtering.
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, select the rule set that contains rules for virus and malware filtering, for example
Gateway Antimalware. The rules appear on the settings pane.
3 Find the rule that uses a whitelist to exempt web objects that belong to a particular media type from
filtering, for example, Allow streaming media from list Antimalware Media Type Whitelist,
and click on the list name.
The Edit List (MediaType) window opens.
4 Click Edit. And Edit window opens. It displays a list of group folders with media types.
5 Expand the group folder with the media type you want to add, for example, Document, and select
the media type, for example, application/vnd/ms-excel.
Note: To add multiple media types at once, select multiple media types or one or multiple group folders.
6 Click OK. The window closes and the media type appears on the whitelist.
7 Click Save Changes.
For more information on how to maintain a list, see List maintenance.
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