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Missed scheduled scans, will they still run?

nduda78

If I have a scheduled scan using 9.x for a certain time, and that system is turned off during that time, will it run the scheduled scan when its powered on next?

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    Wow QC ... Are there any feature requests for Sophos AV that you won't rationize away as somehow being a fault of the customer?

    It is really offputting to have someone with a tag of "Executive VIP" telling me that I am "just doing things wrong".

    I don't know what magical fairyland you work in where end users never power off their laptops, where Wake on Lan actually works reliably with laptop users, or where end users do not complain when a scheduled scan "slows down" their computer during their work day. Wherever it is I know that I don't work there.

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    While we are on the subject of Scheduled Scans, another feature that Sophos is missing is staggered scan starts. This would be where I can schedule a scan to start at 10 AM, plus or minus a random XX minute offset. This feature would be invaluable for large virtualized environments where I don't want 200 VMs all scanning themselves at once and overwhelming the backend SAN storage.

    Scan on boot being a problem with too much disk access? Sophos could add logic to the scanner software to only start scanning after xx minutes of uptime has passed. I know that Symantec AV has a 10 minute delay for pattern updates at boot just for this reason. (at least it did 5 years ago).

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    By the way, every single feature request in this thread is *already* offered by competitors. For example, McAfee VirusScan does them all. If only VirusScan didn't suck so much in other ways...

    Anyway, sorry about my rant. I haven't had my coffee today. I think I will go grab a cup now.

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    Wow QC ... Are there any feature requests for Sophos AV that you won't rationize away as somehow being a fault of the customer?

    It is really offputting to have someone with a tag of "Executive VIP" telling me that I am "just doing things wrong".

    I don't know what magical fairyland you work in where end users never power off their laptops, where Wake on Lan actually works reliably with laptop users, or where end users do not complain when a scheduled scan "slows down" their computer during their work day. Wherever it is I know that I don't work there.

    =-=-=

    While we are on the subject of Scheduled Scans, another feature that Sophos is missing is staggered scan starts. This would be where I can schedule a scan to start at 10 AM, plus or minus a random XX minute offset. This feature would be invaluable for large virtualized environments where I don't want 200 VMs all scanning themselves at once and overwhelming the backend SAN storage.

    Scan on boot being a problem with too much disk access? Sophos could add logic to the scanner software to only start scanning after xx minutes of uptime has passed. I know that Symantec AV has a 10 minute delay for pattern updates at boot just for this reason. (at least it did 5 years ago).

    =-=-=

    By the way, every single feature request in this thread is *already* offered by competitors. For example, McAfee VirusScan does them all. If only VirusScan didn't suck so much in other ways...

    Anyway, sorry about my rant. I haven't had my coffee today. I think I will go grab a cup now.

    :45131
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