Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

File downloads

Status
Not open for further replies.

freak12

MIS
Dec 6, 2001
28
US
New to checkpoint firewall and need some help.

Would like to put a rule in place to prevent downloading of certain file extensions (*.scr, *.asf, *.mpeg...)

Also a rule to prevent users from watching live broadcast over the web.

Thanks
 
I do not think that checkpoint is capable of denying file extensions. If you find a way please let me know. As for the live broadcasts, I would assume you would have to block either the IP of the broadcasting server or the port(s) that is/are used by the software.

GL!

-D
 
I don't think you can controle the file download based on extension with Checkpoint, Anti-virus Opsec will do it tho.

You might want to check into the FTP security server, the match tab could help. But I think it only support complete denial of PUT and GET.

As for live broadcast, you can do it by IP or the protocol it uses. If it's encapsulated in HTTP/80 it practycaly impossible but it can be done. You will have to recognize a common string to the protocole and create a service for it on checkpoint. You can then deny the service in a rule.

It basicaly like it was recommended to do for CodeRed and NIMDA except that the string will be what ever you found common in all communication to that live broadcast thing.

 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top