McAfee GSSCDE-AA-DA User Guide - Page 125

McAfee® GroupShield™ 7.0 User Guide Policy Manager 10 Scanners and filters „ Change - to change the primary and secondary actions associated with a file filtering rule. For more information on changing the primary and secondary actions associated with a file filtering rule, refer to Primary and secondary file filtering actions on page 127 Note „ Delete - to delete the file filtering rule. Creating a new file filtering rule 1 From Policy Manager, select a submenu item that has a file filter. The policy page for the submenu item appears. 2 Choose a desired policy. 3 Click File Filtering. The View Settings tab for the file filtering scanner appears. 4 From the Available rules drop-down menu under File filtering rules and associated actions, choose Create new rule. The File Filtering Rule page appears. 5 Enter a unique Rule name. Give the rule, a meaningful name, so that you can easily identify it and what it does. For example, FilesOver5MB. 6 In Filename filtering, select Enable file name filtering to enable file filtering according to the file names. For example, if you type *.exe, this file filtering rule is applied to any file that has a .exe file name extension. 7 In Take action when the file name matches, specify the names of the files that are affected by this rule. You can use the * and ? wildcard characters to match multiple filenames. For example, if you want to filter out executable files, type *.exe. 8 Click Add to add the file names to the filtering list or Delete to remove file names from the filtering list. 9 In File category filtering, select Enable file category filtering to enable file filtering according to their file type. 10 In Take action when the file category is, specify the type of files that are affected by this rule. File types are divided into categories and subcategories. Note 125