To check if your device’s traffic is secured by the Exium service, on the device, browse to https://block.block.
- When connected to Exium's service, you will see a splash page with a notice “Access to the Website is Blocked”.
- If not connected to Exium's service, you will see an HTTP error in your browser “This site can’t be reached” ( the webpage will fail to load as the address cannot be resolved).
¶ System tray icon
¶ On Windows machine
The system tray icon is located next to the clock on the windows Taskbar. When you have Exium client installed on the device, and have enabled “User Controls” in the workspace, you will see “Speerity Toggle App” in the system tray icon as shown in the picture below.
- When connected to Exium's service, you will see a solid shield filled in with red color, as well as small check mark inside a green circle.
- If not connected to Exium's service, you will see the shield outline and a cross mark in a small circle. You can turn ON/ OFF the secure connection by right-clicking on the icon and left-click on "Speerity ON/ OFF Toggle" text that shows up.
¶ On Mac device
On a Mac device, the "Speerity ON/ OFF Toggle" appears on the top right bar as shown in the screenshot below.
¶ Check DNS
Another way to check if your connection is secured by Exium, run the nslookupcommand as below.
root@vm3:~# nslookup google.com
Server: 172.18.1.100
Address: 172.18.1.100#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.197.101Server name and Address should point to a DNS server IP starting with 172 and ending in 100 as in the above example of
172.18.1.100
¶ Client Software
For a list of the security software modules that Exium installs as part of the Client package, please visit: https://docs.exium.net/en/public/Clients/Software/Exium-Client-Software
For more information on Exium's client including installation instructions please visit: Agent Deployment Options