Endpoint Protection

Hello all, I am looking for some help from you Symantec gurus out there. Now I have read through most of the tutorials for blocking sites and I have some of them in place and working great. My main issue now is I have a handful of users logging into gmail and using its built in chat feature. Has anyone successful blocked this through symantec endpoint? I am aware that this is better suited for a web security type of appliance but sadly my work will not purchase me the things I need. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

That one is tough because it does not run as its own application. You might be able to block the ports it uses (not sure of the affects this might have if you run other applications on those ports). However the ports google talks uses are 5222 443 (http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27930). Please let us know if you end up getting this to work because I think other users will find it helpful.

Thanks
Grant

My apologies that was actually probably for Google Talk which is different than the Google Chat program. Here is another possibility from the google site though: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45492.

Sorry for the confusion,
Grant

Yes that is sort of what has me scratching my hair out.  Google seems very crafty in how they tied this into their email program.  Ironically when I first started to play with the firewall a few months back to block sites I actually got it to work.  Then I switched symantec over to its own dedicated server and when I try the same approach it no longer works.

What was the approach you used the first time? I am curious as to why it would not work once SEP was running on its own server...that seems strange to me. Did you try blocking talk.google.com and talkx.l.google.com as suggested in the article above?

Thanks
Grant

When I first had it working I searched in those same google help sections that you were in.  What it told me in that time was to block chatenabled.mail.google.com and the 127.0.0.1

I tried to find that information again but can not seem to locate it which leads me to think something changed.  I have not tried out that talk.google.com option just yet

Block talkgadget.google.com & hostedtalkgadget.google.com

Blocked both of these options and it still is working.