SEPM Internet Brower Protection needs more options. Currently it is on and cannot be turned off.
It has changed some of our homepages when a peice of adware was removed. The adware did not change our homepage. When SEP removed it during the nightly scan our homepages changed to the default Symantec homepage. We attempted to change the homepages back for our end users. However, when we did the homepages would change to the Symantec webpage after the nightly scan. There were no threats found in those nightly scans accoding to the logs.
We contacted Symantec support and they recommended we change the address field to blank to stop it from changing the homepages. This did not work as they would change to the default Symantec page. We ended up changing the webpage to www.google.com, but now do not have the options we once did.
1) There needs to be a checkbox option to ENABLE or DISABLE... Default would be ENABLE.
2) There needs to be a description to this field and what it does.
3) Move it from Miscellaneous to Internet Protection so people can find it easier.
4) It only needs to occur ONE time and not keep on changing the homepages. This will help so people can change the homepage back once Symantec has done its job. At current, it keeps changing the homepages even when the malware has been removed.
5) It only needs to change the homepages IF an attack/attempt was made by malware, and not because a scan found malware that is in a specific category. Currently when this malware is found (even if it does nothing) the homepage is changed...
6) If you could make the programming a little smarter, SEP could read and write what the homepages are at the begining of scans. It could overright the same data entry within a file that SEP could use for homepage references. This would make it unique for every PC that has SEP on it, AND it would update frequently (at the start of scans). This couldn't account for changes between scans, but could cover most instances. So if a security risk attempts to change the homepage: SEP intercepts/blocks the risk, checks what the homepage should be based on the file previously mentioned, and then changes the homepage to the website(s) in said file.