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rwpatterson
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Dec 19, 2013 8:10 PM UTC
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Freegate.Searching - WTF Fortinet?

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
    Dec 19, 2013 8:20 PM UTC
    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
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    netmin
    New Member
    Dec 19, 2013 8:48 PM UTC
    We have seen it (only) on translate.google.xyz until now ...
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    Taylor_Shain
    New Member
    Dec 19, 2013 8:56 PM UTC
    Also, this only appeared to effect users with Internet Explorer 8. Chrome and IE 10 were never flagged with this application control.
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    rwpatterson
    New Member
    Dec 19, 2013 9:06 PM UTC
    Nor Firefox.
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    Dale_Hassebrock
    New Member
    Dec 19, 2013 9:23 PM UTC
    Just fixed mine. What a life saver this tip turned out to be. Thanks much
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    rwpatterson
    New Member
    Dec 19, 2013 9:47 PM UTC
    That' s the point. :)
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    simonorch
    Explorer
    Dec 20, 2013 9:19 AM UTC
    Thanks for the heads up
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    Jordan_Thompson_FTNT
    Staff
    Staff
    Dec 24, 2013 4:01 PM UTC
    This issue was resolved in IPS signature package 4.425.
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    rwpatterson
    New Member
    Dec 24, 2013 5:59 PM UTC
    Have 4.426. Confirmed. Thanks for the heads up.
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