Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux version 6 PDF User Manual
1.2 Scanning modes
Sophos Anti-Virus has two modes of scanning:
on-access
on-demand.
On-access scanning intercepts files as they are accessed, and grants access to only those that do not pose a threat to your network.
An on-demand scan is a virus/spyware scan of the computer, or parts of the computer, that you can run immediately or schedule to run at another time.
1.3 Integration with management console
Sophos Anti-Virus is integrated with Sophos Enterprise Console, which runs on Windows and enables network administrators to centrally manage
Sophos Anti-Virus on endpoints.
2 Running on-access scanning
On-access scanning intercepts files as they are accessed, and grants access to only those that do not pose a threat to your network.
This section tells you how to use on-access scanning. To configure it, refer to section 8.
2.1 Checking on-access scanning is active
Command line
Type
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdstatus
Sophos Anti-Virus displays the status of on-access scanning. On each page, in the Status panel, the status of on-access scanning is displayed.
Running on-demand scans
An on-demand scan is a virus/spyware scan of the computer, or parts of the computer, that you can run immediately or schedule to run at another time.
By default, Sophos Anti-Virus scans
Windows/DOS executables
.sh and .pl files
files of a type that can be infected by macro viruses
HTML files
files compressed with PKLite, LZEXE and Diet
directories below the one specified
items pointed to by symbolic links.
For a full list of the file types scanned, type savscan -vv
For information on changing these settings, see section 9.
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