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CSCS have used Sophos antivirus for many years.  Sophos have recently added more has features such as ransomware protection and are retiring the version we currently use making an update necessary.

About Sophos

On a Windows computer, you'll find Sophos in the system tray.

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Alerts

Sophos may show alerts in the area above the system tray. These may be advising you that something has been detected and locked.  If Sophos suspects that a file is malicious it will analyze and attempt to clean the file. A succession of pop-ups will appear as a file is detected then analyzed then cleaned.  You can see details for this process by opening the Sophos application and selecting "Events" from the top ribbon.

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What to do if it detects something

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