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on accessing scanning disabled - update failed

Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this.  every so often certain users keep getting this message, the only resolution i have found thus far has been to reinstall sophos with the same details and it works fine....for a while.  1 user has had the same issue 3 times in the past month.  it always goes the same way, install it and it works fine for a while, then it doesnt update, on access scanning is disabled and a reinstall works, then it just happens again.

 the log file below shows that savxp install failed but it doesnt tell me why.  ive also looked at event viewer and i cannot see anything in there at all.  i have tried clearing the temp files but it made no difference.  i know a re-install will fix the issue but i cannot keep doing this.  hopefully someone has came across this before and knows how to fix the issue/prevent it from happening in the future.

thanks

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  • Hello g1IT,

    the AutoUpdate service runs as LOCAL SYSTEM so it should be able to stop the SAV service. Neither the update account (which is used to access the share/web folder and is usually not a local account) nor the impersonation account (SophosSAU....) come into play here (and need not and shouldn't have membership of SophosAdministrator).

    There must be another reason that the installer can't stop the service.

    Christian 

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  • Hello g1IT,

    the AutoUpdate service runs as LOCAL SYSTEM so it should be able to stop the SAV service. Neither the update account (which is used to access the share/web folder and is usually not a local account) nor the impersonation account (SophosSAU....) come into play here (and need not and shouldn't have membership of SophosAdministrator).

    There must be another reason that the installer can't stop the service.

    Christian 

    :45883
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