Many of you might not know it, but Trend have their own community forums through which you can find out about far more information that you normally can on their products. Trend’s Community forums are located here. I’d suggest you think about checking them out next time you have an issue with their product as the forums are staffed not only by Trend resellers, but … [Read more...]
How do I get past the “Malicious Website Blocked” in Trend WFBS 7.0?
The Trend WFBS product has had the ability for some time now to perform scanning of web traffic and it compares the destination URLs you are attempting to access to both a local database on the WFBS Security Server and also a global database that Trend maintains for it’s Web Reputation Services. The WEBS database is one of the key ways that Trend can block access to … [Read more...]
Trend WFBS 7.0 – build 1369 or 1370?
I posted yesterday about a patch for WFBS 7.0 that brought it up to 1370 level. What I found shortly after applying the patch was that in the Trend WFBS Security console it reported not as build 1370, but as build 1369. See below. Initially I was concerned that this meant that the patches supplied were incomplete, but I contacted Trend and discussed this with the … [Read more...]
Trend WFBS 7.0 – Patch 1370 Now Available
Trend have yesterday released an update to their patches for WFBS 7.0. This most recent patch includes everything that was in Patch 1357 as well as additional hotfixes. How did I know about the patch? Easy – my WFBS Security Console showed me when I logged into it this morning. It’s a new feature in WFBS 7.0 that does this. Patch 1370 fixes a number of key … [Read more...]
Trend WFBS 7.0 Patch Update – New Features
One of my biggest criticisms of Trend Micro in their WFBS product has been the lack of real notification that patches are available for their products. This is pretty important as you want to know of issues as soon as you can so that you can decide if you wish to take action on it or not. Well in WFBS 7.0, they’ve got a new feature that goes some way towards solving … [Read more...]