ESET Endpoint Antivirus 6.1.2222 Web Protection too aggressive ?

[JPLavertu 0]

Hi,

 

I have deployed ERA 6 with Endpoint Antivirus 6.1.2222 in our enterprise.  Found out soon after that several ( alot of ) web sites have problems displaying while the web protection is active.  As soon as you disable the web protection, click refresh or open up a new browser window, the website loads correctly.

 

OS : Windows 7 x64

Browser : Google Chrome latest version 41.0.2272

[Marcos 5,071]

Could you confirm or deny that the issues occur with Chrome only? Is it only http and not https websites that are affected ? Any examples? Also please post the information about installed modules from the About window.

[JPLavertu 0]

Virus signature database: 11456 (20150410)

Rapid Response module: 5823 (20150410)

Update module: 1055 (20141118)

Antivirus and antispyware scanner module: 1452 (20150331)

Advanced heuristics module: 1154 (20150129)

Archive support module: 1223 (20150323)

Cleaner module: 1106 (20150316)

Anti-Stealth support module: 1073 (20150320)

ESET SysInspector module: 1246 (20150121)

Real-time file system protection module: 1009 (20130301)

Translation support module: 1322 (20150226)

HIPS support module: 1167 (20150320)

Internet protection module: 1173B.3 (20150324)

Database module: 1064 (20150303)

Configuration module (33): 1054B (20150216)

 

These are the modules installed.

As for examples, here are the websites that users reported having problems with ( i have included all those in a policy under Web Protection, URL Management, "Excluded from checking" :

 

"radio-canada.ca"

"lapresse.ca"

"globeandmail.com"

"hp.com"

"expedia.ca"

"ricardocuisine.com"

"clubic.com"

 

These websites stopped exhibiting problems as soon as we pause web protection.

 

http scanning only

I will report back if it's chrome or not only.

[Marcos 5,071]

I don't have any problems opening those websites in Chrome with web protection enabled. Could somebody else test it too?

[JPLavertu 0]

As an example, Expedia.ca forms wouldn't autocomplete or present choices as you type in form fields.  Paused web protection, reloaded, webpage and bingo, worked.

We also have a Barracuda WebFilter 310 on site, although it was there before and we were running ESET NOD32 AV 4.2 and never experienced issues like I mentionned in this thread.

Edited April 13, 2015 by JPLavertu

[Marcos 5,071]

Web filtering in v4 and v5 is quite different. While it was a tdi driver responsible for passing the data to ekrn for scanning in v4, as of v5 a WFP (Windows Filtering Platform) driver is used for this purpose. Microsoft has fixed several bugs in WFP cauing issues since then but there's still a chance the issue could be attributed to WFP.

Please let us know if you can reproduce the issue with any browser or with Chrome only.

[JPLavertu 0]

I stumbled on another website that exhibited the same problems.  

 

community.spiceworks.com

 

With ESET not paused : 

 

didn`t load on Chrome

didn`t load on IE

Loaded on Firefox

 

With ESET paused :

 

Fine on all browsers immediately.

[JPLavertu 0]

Related.  Going back to ERA , edit custom policy -> Web and Email -> Web Access Protection -> URL Address Management -> Edit list of addresses excluded from checking.

 

I cannot remove entries nor edit them, I can only add to them.  Anybody would have a clue why ?

[JPLavertu 0]

After additionnal troubleshooting, it seems the issue is NOT with Web Access Protection but rather Protocol Filtering in the WEB AND EMAIL section.

 

I have added Chrome to the list of Excluded applications and lo and behold, all websites stopped exhibiting problems.

They do under IE though as it was not excluded.