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How do I determine the antivirus definitions date?

Auditors don't care how often a client gets updates from a server. They care about how current that data is; i.e. when did sophos.com generate it?

I can't figure out any way to determine the actual virus definitions data date. On my Sophos Anti-virus version 9 (Windows XP SP3) client, "view product information/ software" shows a (US mm/dd/yyyy format) "Virus data date" of 7/5/2010 and a "Last updated" date of 8/2/2010, but I think those are software engine dates, not definitions dates

At the other extreme, in the same client windows the "Status/ Last updated" date is just a few minutes ago and simply reflects when this client last spoke to its local (non-Internet-connected) server.

Where can I find the most recent date that sophos.com supplied definitions which are currently running on this client?

--Bruce

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  • Hi,

    The output from:

    SAV32CLI -v

    Will give you the time stamps of the IDE files.

    E.g.

    Data file name         : C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\pingm-a.ide
    Data file type            : IDE
    Data file date           : 17 September 2010, 17:00:35
    So the date is encoded in the IDE.
    Hope this gives you something to work with.

    Thanks,
    Jak
    :5113
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  • Hi,

    The output from:

    SAV32CLI -v

    Will give you the time stamps of the IDE files.

    E.g.

    Data file name         : C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\pingm-a.ide
    Data file type            : IDE
    Data file date           : 17 September 2010, 17:00:35
    So the date is encoded in the IDE.
    Hope this gives you something to work with.

    Thanks,
    Jak
    :5113
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