Here we'll walk you through configuring Malicious URL Blocking as part of Advanced Network Protection in VIPRE Endpoint Security Server.

To configure the Malicious URL Blocking settings:

1. Right-click on the desired policy and select Properties
2. Find Advanced Network Protection then select Malicious URL Blocking
3. Under Verify HTTPS URLs (with browser extension), select the desired web browser
   • Currently, browser extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge are supported
4. Under Verify HTTPS URLs, in the box called Ports to filter for bad URLs, click Add and type in the TCP/UDP port that you want to block
   • This enables you to block web-traffic from specific ports only, from a Web site listed under the Bad URLs list
   • Ports 80 and 8080 are added by default and cannot be removed to ensure HTTP requests are filtered for bad URLs
5. Configure Privacy Settings, which are based on the Bad URL list maintained by VIPRE Security
   • You can override these global settings for specific Web sites that you want to allow by adding allowed Web sites
     • Filter persistent cookies: a persistent cookie may be required to view certain Web sites; enabling this option may result in some pages not displaying properly
     • Filter session cookies: a session cookie may be required to view certain Web sites; enabling this option may result in some pages not displaying properly
     • Filter foreign cookies: a foreign cookie may be required to view certain advertisements or link to 3rd party sites; enabling this option may result in some content not displaying
     • Do not allow outside servers to trace web browsing: select to keep browsing private when redirected to other Web sites; when selected, the details of a link request are stripped from the referring Web site so that the target Web site cannot identify the page of which the page request originated from; unselect to allow this referring to occur
6. Select Allow user to configure Malicious URL Blocking, to allow users to enable or disable URL blocking on the Agent machine
7. Select Log when connections are blockedto log all attempted connections that are made to a blocked domain/URL on the Agent machine
   • You can view the log from the Agent Console (Firewall History > Web History)
8. Click Apply at the bottom then OK.