LanGuard Section
Answer Macintosh, Linux, Unix, and a dozen other devices and Operating Systems are hard to identify. If the Operating System is only determined by ICMP packets and not SMB or SNMP, the chance that the...
Answer GFI LANguard makes use of vbs scripts to install and un-install certain components. These vbs scripts make use of custom APIs, and because of this, are detected as potentially malicious by Nort...
Overview This article shares the process for disabling Network Discovery in GFI LanGuard. Process Follow these steps to disable the automatic network discovery: Open the GFI LanGuard console. Naviga...
Answer This situation may occur when an antivirus like Norton Antivirus is installed on the same machine as GFI LANguard. By default Norton Antivirus has enabled the email scanning options. In this ca...
AnswerUDP is a connection-less protocol. When a UDP packet is sent to a port that is OPEN, the receiving computer does not send a packet back confirming the receipt of the packet, as is standard with ...
Answer The Windows Remote Registry service is a feature on all Microsoft Windows operating system that enables remote access to the client computer or server for viewing and modifying the Windows regi...
Answer In GFI LanGuard installed updates / patches for Linux and MAC computers will not be displayed under Patches tab, but these will be displayed under the Software tab instead. For Linux / Unix co...
AnswerOnly Microsoft Security bulletin (security updates) and 3rd Party applications have a name listed under the Bulletin field. Microsoft Non-security patches/updates and do not have a Bulletin name...
Overview The user opens the Software tab in GFI LanGuard on a Mac OS X machine and sees the following message: There is no data available in this category for your current selection! Information Thi...
AnswerThis is normally caused if the web server is configured to send a custom web page when a requested page is not found. GFI LANguard is expecting to get an error message (e.g. HTTP error 404), and...
