GFI WebMonitor™ - Features

For example, the administrator can allow users to download a maximum of 100 MB per day from video sharing and online file storage websites such as YouTube or MegaUpload. When users exceed their bandwidth threshold, a notification page is displayed informing them that their bandwidth quota for the defined period has been reached. These policies, too, can be defined for specific websites or entire categories of websites.

This option is normally customizable at the user level, i.e., the user can disable it; however, by enabling this feature, the personal option will be overridden so that the one mandated by GFI WebMonitor is used instead. This feature is particularly useful in educational institutions where objectionable material should never make it to the user’s browser through search engine result pages.

Provide your employees with safe, well managed access to the Internet while on your premises and you will safeguard your company, your employees and your bottom line.

Audio and video content are a routine feature on news, entertainment and sports and this can quickly create a network bottleneck especially in peak times or during events of interest.

Policies to block streaming media enable you to allow access to the sites which are providing the media while blocking access to the actual stream, ensuring that a healthy medium is reached.

Specific streaming via media applications such as iTunes, Winamp, Quicktime, Windows Media Player can also be blocked.

This feature includes an auto-update engine to be able to distribute new signatures as they are discovered.

Using multiple scanners reduces the average time taken to obtain the latest virus signatures, greatly reducing the risk to your site by each new virus. Also, since each engine has its own heuristics and methods, each brings its own unique strength in detecting and correcting for the ever-increasing variety of viruses. Overall, more antivirus engines mean more virus protection. GFI WebMonitor is bundled with the Norman and BitDefender antivirus engines. It automatically checks and updates the Norman and BitDefender definition files as they become available. The GFI WebMonitor price includes updates for one year.

To achieve greater security and enhance the benefits gained by scanning via multiple antivirus engines, users can add the Kaspersky SuperSecure antivirus engine, available as an optional add-on. The Kaspersky SuperSecure database includes support for the detection of malicious software that can perform remote administration, key logging, password detection, automatic dial-up to paid sites, and more. GFI WebMonitor automatically checks and updates the Kaspersky definition files as they become available.

An active connection, browsing session or download can easily be blocked, simply by clicking the block connection icon. This proves very useful if you need to interrupt the unauthorized download of an oversize file.

The file can then be obtained by clicking the ‘Save’ button in the download progress window. Some pieces of malware rely on the ability to download further files from the web to complete their infection of a computer. Not being aware of the GFI WebMonitor download progress window and not being able to get past it, such pieces of malware are blocked in their tracks. Download progress windows for which the file is not retrieved can be monitored so as to identify infections with such malicious applications performing “hidden downloads” – which can include Trojans, spyware and others.

GFI WebMonitor helps comply with this law – there is an option to enable anonymization of personal data, which makes all personal data in reports visible only by using the four-eye principle (which requires at least two people to witness/approve a certain activity).