Category: Desktop

Desktop, Repackaging, Windows Technologies

Internet Explorer: Managing Phishing Filter Prompts

By default, IE warns you if the website you are visiting might be impersonating another website. This mechanism by IE is termed as Phishing Filters. for various reasons the systems engineers/administrators require to disable this prompt for the end users essentially when they are deploying some automated web based system which they know can cause IE to prompt with it’s Phishing Filters.   IE Phishing Filter Registry: IE Phishing Filter is controlled by below registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftInternet ExplorerPhishingFilter] "Enabled"=dword:00000001 "ShownVerifyBalloon"=dword:00000003 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerPhishingFilter] "Enabled"=dword:00000001 "ShownVerifyBalloon"=dword:00000003 Below is the behavioral analysis of how IE Phishing Filter Feature works and can be managed: […]

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Desktop

Upgrading Symantec Anti Virus Reporting Server Component to the Latest Version

To fix the SAV Reporting Server component issue you may need to keep it updated to the latest version. Issue: SAV Reporting Console results in blank page. Investigation and Fix: After enabling debug logging, you find that SAV Reporting Server failing to connect to its DB with log#1 message. The logs uploaded by reporting agents start queuing on server. After some troubleshooting, the error transform into second error given in log#2 for which Symantec has no fix but to upgrade application to the latest version. However, the Reporting Server installer keeps on hanging forever (with log statement given in log#3) […]

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