Right click on the Blue Shield sophos icon on the bottom right of your status bar. Select Open Sophos Endpoint Security and Control
Configure anti-virus and HIPS
On-access Scanning. Check off Enable on-access scanning for this computer
If wanting to push out Sophos to systems running Vista or Windows 7 you will get an error with Sophos unable to do the remote install. By Default remote registry is disabled on Vista and Windows 7.
Follow the steps below to enable a push install:
Run services.msc and start Remote Registry
Open ports 8192, 8193, 8194 in [...]
We recently had a client who had a number of PST files open in their outlook, and some time after installing Sophos found that they could not open the PSTs. While we could continue to open smaller PSTs around 50Mb, any larger PSTs would give an access errror when attempting to open them.
In the event [...]
I received this email apparently from ebay this morning. Very proper looking and as I had a number of items listed I clicked on the link to check out who had cancelled their bid.
When you highlight the link you see it goes to a site http://callofthetrees…
My IE8 picked up this was a phising site, which [...]
I was watching4 corners last night and thought it worth putting a link on the blog for others to watch the documentary
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20090817/cyber/
This documentary covered various methods of cyber criminals
Blackmailing through using botnets to take websites offline
Identity theft through phishing emails
Purchasing credit card details stolen from sites or through fake (or real) webpages selling products
Finance job [...]
This is a particulary difficult rootkit trojan to get rid of I have found on a couple of systems. Both were infected even though they were running Trend. Trend would detect and quaranteen it, but never get rid of it and it kept recurring. I also ran spybot search and destroy which found multiple instances that it [...]
According to a Verisign report Australian consumers still fall for scammer’s traps.
“Our research tested the applicability and understanding of a variety of phishing methods Australian consumers need to be aware of,” said Armando Dacal, director, authentication services, VeriSign Asia Pacific. “Sneaky strategies such as imitation web sites that try and phish your personal details have [...]
When installing Sophos PureMessage anti-spam / mail filtering software, if your Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine (MSDE) engine is not at SP4, the installer will report that it is Unable to connect to \local\SOPHOS. However if you try to install SP4 for MSDE, it won’t necessarily upgrade the correct version of MSDE.
To check which version of [...]
Occasionally you may have problems where the Adelbert programs in control panel does not properly or totally remove Norton anti-virus elements. Depending on the exact version of your operating system and the products you have go to the site to find the appropriate removal instructions
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/sharedtech.nsf/docid/2005092709200113?Open&src=symsug_us
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&docid=2005092709200113&nsf=sharedtech.nsf&view=docid
To download the Norton AntiVirus removal tool click on this link
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe
