GFI is pleased to announce the release of GFI WebMonitor 2009 Beta 1
build 20090206.
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Download Location:
http://software.gfi.com/beta/WebMonitor2009.exe
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Added features
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NEW: WebGrade database coverage: The WebGrade database has been drastically improved to increase URL coverage across multiple languages. The DB size has increased from 10 million to 120 million TLDs (Top Level Domains).
NEW: WebGrade Online lookups: Due to the constantly changing nature of the web, GFI WebMonitor now also queries GFI servers for categorization of URLs that are not found in the local cached database.
NEW: Top Policy Breakers: GFI WebMonitor will now report details on all users who were stopped by GFI WebMonitor from breaching company policies. Such breaches may include browsing restricted sites, downloading of malware infected files or filetypes that are blocked through download control policies.
NEW: Top Bandwidth Consumption by Category page: The user can view the bandwidth consumed by each URL category. Clicking on a category will filter out all browsed sites falling under that category as well as the users who accessed those sites.
NEW: MSN control: Monitor and block MSN & Windows Live Messenger (Version 2008 & 2009) incoming and outgoing messages.
UPDATE: Improved performance when uploading Reporting Databases to SQL server.
UPDATE: Optimization of the Reporting Database.
UPDATE: Improved ability to handle a larger number of simultaneous requests
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Known Issues
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– When blocking MSN chats, url might appear empty in history pages and filetype might be listed incorrectly in the activity log.
– In order for advanced web filtering rules to work, the order of categories listed must be exactly as returned by the Webgrade database.
– It is not recommended that upgrades be carried out on production servers with this beta build, due to known issues with upgrades over GFI
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WebMonitor 4:
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Upgrade from version 4 is supported only from same application folder. If WebMonitor 4 was previously uninstalled from a different path, upon installing WebMonitor 2009 Beta build, the WebMonitor service needs to be restarted after the upgrade.
Following an upgrade, users must click on “Save Settings” button somewhere in the UI for Web Filtering rules to work.
As always, we would greatly value your feedback.
P.S.: ISA TMG Beta 2 is not supported.
The GFI WebMonitor Team
GFI Software – www.gfi.com
Messaging, Content Security & Network Security Software
Tel: +356 21382418 Fax: +356 21382419
HTH,
Tom
Thomas W Shinder, M.D., MCSE
Sr. Consultant / Technical Writer
Prowess Consulting www.prowessconsulting.com
PROWESS CONSULTING | Microsoft Forefront Security Specialist
Email: [email protected]
MVP — Forefront Edge Security (ISA/TMG/IAG)