Sophos Anti Virus 5 Users Manual For Windows 2000/XP/2003 User

2015-02-06

• Contents
• About Sophos Anti-Virus
  • What is Sophos Anti-Virus?
  • Sophos Anti-Virus window
  • Sophos Anti-Virus system tray icon
  • What is on-access scanning?
  • What is an on-demand scan?
  • What is a right-click scan?
• Checking the computer is protected
  • Checking protection is on
  • Turning protection on or off for the computer
• Scanning items on demand
  • What is an on-demand scan?
  • Scanning local disks
  • Setting up a scan
  • Scheduling a scan
  • Running a scan
  • Editing a scan
• Scanning a single item
  • Scanning a single item
• Restricting access rights
  • Types of user
  • Changing membership of Sophos user groups
• Changing settings for multiple users
  • Changing settings for all computers
  • Changing settings for all users on the computer
• Configuring scanning
  • Changing types of file scanned
  • Excluding items from scanning
  • Changing when on-access scanning occurs
  • Scanning inside archive files
  • Scanning Macintosh files
  • Scanning all files
• Configuring alerts
  • Desktop messaging
  • Email alerting
  • Event logging
  • SNMP messaging
• Logging
  • Viewing the log for this computer
  • Configuring the log for this computer
  • Viewing the log for an on-demand scan
• Updating
  • Updating immediately
  • Setting up automatic updating
  • Setting a source for updates
  • Setting an alternative source for updates
  • Scheduling updates
  • Updating via a proxy server
  • Limiting the bandwidth used
  • Logging updates
• Disinfection
  • What is disinfection?
  • Getting disinfection information
  • Setting up automatic disinfection
  • Disinfecting on demand
  • Disinfecting with a right-click scan
  • Recovering from virus side-effects
• Managing quarantine items
  • What is Quarantine manager?
  • Dealing with viruses in quarantine
  • Configuring user rights for Quarantine manager
• Troubleshooting
  • System tray icon has a white cross
  • System tray icon is greyed out
  • Virus not disinfected
  • Virus fragment reported
  • Unable to access disk with infected boot sector
  • Unable to access areas of Sophos Anti-Virus
  • Getting further help