SquidGuard - block .exe - at witts end (not working)
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Hi Guys
I have tried (without any luck) to block the download of executables.I have created a destination rule and added nothing but the expression, but I can still download the exe file.
What I would like to do is block downloading of exe, bat, pif files. I can't seem to lay my hands on a solution…
Kind regards
Aubrey Kloppers
ps - please could someone tell me where I am going wrong?
I have tried:
1. exe|pif|bat
2. .exe|.pif|.bat
3. .*.(exe|pif|bat)
4. .exe$|.bat$|.pif$
but nothing works... -
.(exe|pif|bat)($|?) works for me, but then again so does .exe$|.bat$|.pif$
So how do you have this configured? As an expressionlist? Did you make the new acl that you added, configured and set to 'deny'?
hint quick way to verify squidGuard stuff, is as follows, from the cmd line:
echo "http://www.website.com/file.exe ip_address - - GET" | squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf -d
Replace ip_address with yours.
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Hi wagonza (and others reading this message)
squidGuard works, without a problem! It was STUPID ME! I passed the website as a WHITE website, then blocked the exe!
Is there not a way that one can change the rule ORDER?
For example:
RULE1: allow www.site.com
RULE2: deny test.exeWhen squidGuard passes the www.site.com it does no further checks for extensions, as the site has already passed. One should be able to order the rules aswell…
kind regards
Aubrey Kloppers
Cape Town
South Africa -
Exists rules priority:
white - hight
block - normal
allow - low
