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rwpatterson
New Member
December 19, 2013
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Freegate.Searching - WTF Fortinet?

  • December 19, 2013
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I just started receiving hundreds of calls re: cannot surf the Internet, needed applications hanging, etc. After jumping through hoops, dodging bullets for the past couple hours, it seems the latest signature update introduced a false positive on ' Freegate' Searching' , and it' s blocking a bunch of stuff. Google, Yahoo, banking sites... You name it. Once I set that to Monitor instead of block, everything works. BE AWARE.

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    Taylor_Shain
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    Same symptoms here. First occurrence of ' Freegate.Searching' application control appeared at 13:10, which coincides with the following update at 13:09: Fortigate push update virdb(21.00305) etdb(21.00305) idsdb(4.00424)idsetdb(0.00000) from 61.204.170.252:443
    netmin
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    We have seen it (only) on translate.google.xyz until now ...
    Taylor_Shain
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    Also, this only appeared to effect users with Internet Explorer 8. Chrome and IE 10 were never flagged with this application control.
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    Nor Firefox.
    Dale_Hassebrock
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    Just fixed mine. What a life saver this tip turned out to be. Thanks much
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    December 19, 2013
    That' s the point. :)
    simonorch
    Explorer
    December 20, 2013
    Thanks for the heads up
    Jordan_Thompson_FTNT
    Staff
    Staff
    December 24, 2013
    This issue was resolved in IPS signature package 4.425.
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    December 24, 2013
    Have 4.426. Confirmed. Thanks for the heads up.