03.15.2010
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
11.20.2009
1. Ensure the PureMessage tagging are enabled
Open PureMessage
Configuration
Transport SMTP scanning policy
AntiSpam
Configure subject tags and X-headers
Then enable all X-header tagging.
2. Ensure the sender address or domain is not listed in Allowed Senders’s list
Open PureMessage
Configuration
Transport SMTP scanning policy
AntiSpam
Select Allow specific sender
Once you have verified these settings, please continue to monitor the status and the catch rate on [...]
09.16.2009
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 [...]
05.25.2009
When your Sophos username and password expires you need to update them in the enterprise manager library.
Open Sophos enterprise manager. If you have the enterprise console dashboard open click on the library button on the toolbar.
Right click on EM library and select properties
Under the primary and secondary parent tabs click on set access.
If you are [...]
04.19.2009
This article describes how to configure the update settings for a single computer. This is typically one that has had Sophos Anti-Virus installed by the standalone installer. You can configure the update settings locally or centrally. Note: If the computer is managed centrally, you cannot alter the configuration locally. All options will be greyed out
What [...]
02.19.2009
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 [...]