How can I temporarily disable the ThreatSTOP service

To temporarily disable the ThreatSTOP service issue the following commands and configuration changes.

1. Disable from the GUI
2. Turn off the crontab jobs

 

Disable from the GUI.

Log into your pfsense GUI and under firewall, select ThreatSTOP. In the new window, click on the disable button.

This will remove the firewall rules from the interfaces.  

 

Turn off the crontab jobs. 

Log into your pfsense via ssh and run

crontab -e

The output will look similar to

Add a pound / hash sign (#) in front of the tsupdate.sh so it looks like

 

This will prevent the update scripts from running.

 

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