No detection if <!DOCTYPE HTML> and <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBscript">
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No detection if <!DOCTYPE HTML> and <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBscript">

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Article ID: 439360

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Issue/Introduction

when doing detection of files that have html and vbscript tags in the document detection doesnt occur

Environment

DLP 16.0 and above. 

Cause

Since these tags are considered markup tags will exist outside of  normal detection, and detection doesn't occur.

for example

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”VBscript”>
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Resolution

Go to System>Servers and detectors overview> select a detection server> go to server settings

Make sure the following setting is enabled

ContentExtraction.MarkupAsText needs to be ON

restart services.

Additional Information

by default the ContentExtraction.MarkupAsText is set to off by default.