General Topics

Why does Threat Database not include any details in the description of viruses ?

Both vulnerabilities and spyware have descriptions are useful in understanding what those signatures correspond to. But the Viruses do not contain a description. Is there any reason for that ? It would be usefull to associate them with atleast the we

Yahoo Messenger version 11.

This version has a facebook chat included. is there a way to block / drop facebook chat from this version?

email scheduler and weekly reccurence

Hello,

I have setup some customs reports for my customer. I have choose 'Every monday' reccurence for the emailing, but this features doesn't seem to work: the members of the email profile receive a new reports everyday.

Any idea ?

Best regards.

Allow certain EXE downloads by filename

I use data filtering and currently block EXE downloads amoung others. My problem is now my users can't download updates to their malware software. The malware software we use currently doesn't offer a centralized management feature so the updates hav

No space left on device

I'm trying to upgrade software 4.0.1 -> 4.0.2. When I am downloading new image via web I receive following error :

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/bin/swm", line 10, in ?     swmmain.main(sys.argv[1:])   File "/usr/share/pan-swm/

synchronization in progress issue

Hello,

We're new PA users - we've brought up a pair of 5050s running 4.0.3 with the HA patch for virtual systems and we're getting a "synchronization in progress" message for prolonged periods.  It then eventually reverts to not synchronized.  We can'

Disable SIP ALG

Hi,

Is there any way of disabling the PAN SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) application ? My Voip provider has asked to turn SIP ALG off as they think its interfereing with the headers.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1216 This article says

Configuring URL filtering from command line

Hi all,

Just wondered if anybody knew of a quick way to apply the same action to all categories within an URL filter please?

It's not the end of the world if it can't be done, it just seems to me that a wildcard option would be useful.

For example, if

Is it risky to that allow browser-based apps on any ports

I'm considering to create a policy for Internet access to replace traditional Internet rule (i.e. outbound 80/tcp or any other ports raised by user per special request).  To minimize future special request by user, I prefer to allow any ports if app-

PANOS 4.0.1 - Email Alerts are no longer easy to read

Since upgrading to 4.0.1 the email alerts are all in one line, no longer very easy to read.

Can we fix the formatting of the alerts please

Can I not to install user identification agent to the domain controller?

The client would like to use their Active-Directory for user identification in PAN.

However, they are not prefer to install the agent in their domain controller.

Is it possible to install the agent in a computer which has already joined the domain, but