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Posts Tagged Sophos

03.15.2010

How to disable Sophos anti virus

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

Stopping Phishing using Sophos Pure Message

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

SAVOnAccessControl Access error trying to open PST running Sophos

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

Updating Sophos username and password for library downloads

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

Sophos Anti-Virus: how to configure update settings on a single computer

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

Upgrading MSDE prior to installing Sophos PureMessage

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 [...]