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Table 9-2 lists the types of security policies that are included with Symantec
Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition. A default policy is provided for each
type.
Table 9-2
Security policy types
DescriptionPolicy type
The Virus and Spyware Policy provides the following
protection:
■ Detect, remove, and repair the side effects of known
viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and blended threats.
■ Detect, remove, and repair the side effects of known
spyware, adware, remote access programs, dialers,
hacking tools, and joke programs.
■ TruScan proactive threat scans analyze applications and
processes for behavior anomalies, to detect unknown
threats and security risks.
See “About managing protection scans” on page 111.
Virus and Spyware Policy
The Centralized Exceptions Policy lists the applications and
processes that are excluded from the Auto-Protect and
TruScan scans.
See “About exceptions” on page 125.
Centralized Exceptions
Policy
The Firewall Policy provides the following protection:
■ Block unauthorized users from accessing the computers
and networks that connect to the Internet.
■ Detect hacker attacks.
■ Eliminate unwanted sources of network traffic.
See “About managing firewall protection” on page 127.
Firewall Policy
The Intrusion Prevention Policy automatically detects and
blocks network attacks.
See “About managing Intrusion Prevention protection”
on page 137.
Intrusion Prevention Policy
The LiveUpdate Policy lists the settings that client
computers use to download content updates from
LiveUpdate.
See “About managing content updates from LiveUpdate”
on page 89.
LiveUpdate Policy
83Managing security policies and computer groups
About the security policies