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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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    Hello bmcswiss,

    you can start a scheduled scan (one that is set via the policy) immediately (i.e. before the scheduled time) from a shutdown script (using schtasks /Run /TN "Your scan"). The problem is that the scan runs asynchronously, in other words, your script will proceed after schtasks and the scan will be terminated. Now there is a thread about the (almost) opposite: shut down after a scheduled scan (How to run a program after scan is finished?). It might give you some ideas how to implement what you want.

    HTH

    Christian

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    Hello bmcswiss,

    you can start a scheduled scan (one that is set via the policy) immediately (i.e. before the scheduled time) from a shutdown script (using schtasks /Run /TN "Your scan"). The problem is that the scan runs asynchronously, in other words, your script will proceed after schtasks and the scan will be terminated. Now there is a thread about the (almost) opposite: shut down after a scheduled scan (How to run a program after scan is finished?). It might give you some ideas how to implement what you want.

    HTH

    Christian

    :24643
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