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Scan on shut down

bmcswiss

We use Sophos in our organisation and have a weekly Sophos scan scheduled to run on a Tuesday lunchtime.

Is there any way of changing Sophos to scan on shutdown?

Alot of our PC estate is low ram (512mb), the scan slows the older PCs to unusable levels. Would be better if instead we could scan on shut down.

I can't see an option for it :smileyfrustrated:

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    Hi bmcswiss,

    There is no supported method of setting a machine to be scanned on shutdown.

    However the scheduled scan does use the task scheduler to set the scan to run so on an individual machine or via GPO you can alter the settings of the scan job this way. There is no support for this by technical support. Having stated that, I don't believe that the task scheduler can trigger a job on shutdown, the closest you can achieve would be 'on workstation lock' for Windows7 machines and 'when idle' for XP machines.

    Cheers

    :24617
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    Hi bmcswiss,

    There is no supported method of setting a machine to be scanned on shutdown.

    However the scheduled scan does use the task scheduler to set the scan to run so on an individual machine or via GPO you can alter the settings of the scan job this way. There is no support for this by technical support. Having stated that, I don't believe that the task scheduler can trigger a job on shutdown, the closest you can achieve would be 'on workstation lock' for Windows7 machines and 'when idle' for XP machines.

    Cheers

    :24617
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