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Antivirus and Intrusion Detection/Prevention client from Symantec. Can be either managed or unmanaged by SEPM (SEP Manager)

SEP is a Windows or Linux antivirus and intrusion detection (or intrusion prevention) agent. It can be either managed by one or more SEPM's (and their Group Update Providers - GUP's), or unmanaged, where the local admin can configure the client.

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How do I setup Symantec Endpoint Protection Server to work on a standalone network?

I have Symantec Endpoint Protection (ver 11) on a standalone network that will not have access to the internet. I need to burn updates on CDRs and move them to this network. I need to know: Where do I download the latest updates How exactly do I…
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How to stop Symantec Endpoint from screwing up my internet connection proxy settings?

We have a Symantec Endpoint infrastructure in our organization. Also, the individual computers connect to the internet through a proxy server. Now, for some reason, the Endpoint client is repeatedly messing up the proxy address setting in explorer.…
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symantec endpoint protection geo blocking

How can I create a firewall rule that will only allow RDP connections from my country (on specified port) ? All the rest will be blocked. I am using Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.0 RU1 build 3929.1200.
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Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client using both GPO & Remote Push - Nothing is working

I have an Organizational Unit called Computers in Active Directory. In this OU, I have all the workstations on which I want to install SEP client. I extracted the msi file and made a network share. This msi file is on a different server than the AD.…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Console looks strange -- installed correctly?

I have Symantec Endpoint Protection installed on a Windows Server 2003 box, and the management console looks strange. It looks like pieces are missing [0]. What's more is I can't generate reports, and the Monitors screen is largely blank. Has anyone…
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Symantec LiveUpdate Location Based Bandwidth Throttling

I have been lumped with our Symantec Endpoint responsibilities, and would like to look at fixing a long term issue we've been having of LiveUpdate smashing the links to our smaller sites. I've done a bit of digging around Symantec's site, but can't…
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Symantec network intrusion protection slowing backups to a crawl

We recently went to a disk-based appliance solution for our company's backups. I've set everything up and monitoring the backups shows that they are crawling. Like 64 MB/min on a 1 GB ethernet network. We're also running Symantec Endpoint…
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Drowning in Norton Endpoint Protection virus definition files

I've been noticing that my 40 GB C: drive on the Windows 2008 Server keeps getting filled up. After investigation I found that this is a known issue with SEP described in article TECH180056 on symantec websit: Article URL…
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SEPMC fail connection

Our Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager have stopped working. I get error that the server can't be found. It's a single server installation where we RDP in and use the Symantec Console local on the server. But for some reason we can't connect with…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 blocking internet connection

I have a user that gets blocked from the internet periodically due to a setting within Symantec Endpoint Protection . The warning he gets is similar to: Traffic from IP address 192.168.1.1 is blocked from 11:53pm to 12.03am. Denial of Service is…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection "portscan attack" false alarms?

On two Windows 7 machines in my LAN I have Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 installed. Things work fine, but several time per day I get to see the following warning: I had a thorough look at the machine that is running on 192.168.1.111, but I am…
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Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chrome Both Crash Instantly Upon Launching

I have a single Windows server (Windows Server 2016 / 1607) which has peculiar issues with web browsers. Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chrome crash instantly when they are launched and display the Aw Snap / This Page is having a problem…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection virus definition files

Are Symantec Endpoint Protection virus definition files protected by "Protect Symantec security software from being tampered with or shutdown" option? In other words I want to know if virus definition files have tamper protection in SEP?
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Why is the Anti Virus Definition file only 200MBs?

So I downloaded a virus definition file for symantec endpoint protection. We regularly update our client's closed network anti virus using these files once every 6 months. The files are of '.JDB' extension which I presume is some sort of database…
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