How to prevent SiteAdvisor Enterprise being disabled in Firefox

Technical Articles ID: KB69560
Last Modified: 11/3/2016

Environment

McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise (SAE) 3.5
McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus 3.0

Mozilla Firefox for Windows

Problem

You can use Windows Group Policies to prevent users from disabling SAE via Internet Explorer by using the Tools, Manage Add-ons menu. However, you cannot use Group Policies to prevent users from disabling SAE via Firefox using the Tools, Add-ons Menu, Extensions menu.

Solution

To prevent Firefox extensions from being disabled, you need to create a VirusScan Access Protection rule.

Create a User-Defined Access Protection Rule for Files/Folders in ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO):

Log on to the ePO console and click Policy Catalog.
From the Product drop-down menu, select the version of VirusScan Enterprise you use on your end nodes.
From the Category drop-down menu, select Access Protection Policies.
Click Edit Settings on your assigned Policy.
Click User-defined Rules, and then click New.
Select File/Folder Blocking Rule, and type a name for this rule.
Under Process to include select the asterisk (*).
Under File or folder name to be blocked add:

**\firefox\**\extensions*.*
Under File actions to prevent, select:
- Write access to file
- Files being executed
- New files being created
- Files being deleted
Save your changes.

This prevents all Firefox extensions from having their current (enabled / disabled) status changed. It also blocks any other Firefox add-ons from being installed on the end node.

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SiteAdvisor Enterprise 3.5

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