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06-08-2016 10:59 AM
Hello Community,
I would like to set an Antivirus action to 'Block', but for some reason that option isn't available, see image. However, it has been available on my other PA-VM. Can someone explain why I can't see that option here?
06-08-2016 11:39 AM
These are the only available actions for antivirus profiles. Drop along with reset-both are the same as "block". Drop will silently drop the traffic. Reset-both will send TCP resets to both the client and server (or drops the traffic if its UDP).
I have my profiles configured to reset-both. In the case of a incoming virus over SMTP, reset-both will send a 541 response to the mail server preventing it from attempting to resend the blocked message again.
You can find more information about this in the administrator's guide.
06-08-2016 11:39 AM
These are the only available actions for antivirus profiles. Drop along with reset-both are the same as "block". Drop will silently drop the traffic. Reset-both will send TCP resets to both the client and server (or drops the traffic if its UDP).
I have my profiles configured to reset-both. In the case of a incoming virus over SMTP, reset-both will send a 541 response to the mail server preventing it from attempting to resend the blocked message again.
You can find more information about this in the administrator's guide.
06-09-2016 03:04 AM - edited 06-09-2016 03:05 AM
Has this been changed in recent versions? We are running 6.1.10 and have the block option in our antivirus profile.
06-09-2016 03:23 AM - edited 06-09-2016 03:24 AM
Hi,
This is mentioned in the 7.0 release notes.
It's one of the changes to default behavior in PAN-OS 7.0 :
---Release Notes---
The default actions for handling threats now are alert or reset-both (sides of the connection). In releases prior to PAN-OS 7.0.0, the defaults were alert or block. On upgrade, the block action will be converted to reset-both; and the drop-packets option is now renamed as drop. On downgrade, all actions configured as drop or reset, will be converted to block.
---Release Notes---
regards,
-Kim.
06-09-2016 03:24 AM
Block in older version is reset-both in newer version. Plus there are now options to drop silently or reset only one side.
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