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Enabling the Meerkat Blocking feature of Worry-Free Business Security (WFBS) 9.0

    • Updated:
    • 24 Nov 2016
    • Product/Version:
    • Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
    • Platform:
    • Windows 2003 Enterprise
    • Windows 2003 Server R2
    • Windows 2003 Small Business Server
    • Windows 2003 Small Business Server R2
    • Windows 2003 Standard
    • Windows 2008 Enterprise
    • Windows 2008 Essential Business Server
    • Windows 2008 Server R2
    • Windows 2008 Small Business Server
    • Windows 2008 Standard
    • Windows 2011 Small Business Server Essentials
    • Windows 2011 Small Business Server Standard
    • Windows 2012 Enterprise
    • Windows 2012 Server Essentials
    • Windows 2012 Web Server Edition
    • Windows 7 32-bit
    • Windows 7 64-bit
    • Windows 8 32-bit
    • Windows 8 64-bit
    • Windows 8.1 32-bit
    • Windows 8.1 64-bit
    • Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC
    • Windows Vista 32-bit
    • Windows Vista 64-bit
    • Windows XP Home
    • Windows XP Professional
Summary

Meerkat is a detection improvement in common clients to prevent 0-day attacks. This feature leverages Behavior Monitoring and Web Reputation, thus both must be enabled for Meerkat Blocking to function properly.

 
This feature supports Desktop groups only.

Below is a sample pop-up message when Meerkat blocks a program:

Meerkat blocking pop-up message

By default, the pop-up message will only appear once.

The program or file will be blocked after 30 seconds if you do not click the Allow once button.

Details
Public

To enable Meerkat Blocking:

  1. Log in to the WFBS Security Server console.
  2. Go to Security Settings > Desktop (defaults) > Configure Settings.
  3. On the left pane, click Web Reputation and make sure it is enabled.
  4. Go back to the left pane and select Behavior Monitoring.
  5. Make sure that the Enable Behavior Monitoring checkbox is ticked. 
  6. Tick the Prompt users before executing newly encountered programs through HTTP or email applications option as well. 

    Make sure Behavior Monitoring is enabled

    Click image to enlarge.

  7. Click Save.
Premium
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Rating:
Category:
Configure
Solution Id:
1101664
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