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Sophos Standalone (No network)

Arnold_Layne

Is there any way that we can run Sophos Antivirus on standalone non-networked non-internet computers. Ideally I could update the definitions to each PC daily or when required but don't see a way of doing this.

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    Hello Arnold_Layne

    No network and no nuffing leaves removable media as source of infection/threats, right? And update the definitions to each PC
     is - what exactly? Carrying some removable medium to them?

    If you're looking for a solution using removable media I think (not tested) you could install from there (just copy the CID to the medium and after inserting it run setup.exe). The update location should then be the install medium.

    Christian 

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    Thanks QC. you have it right. I would be looking to manually update definitions to each PC by usb or CD etc. I'm looking to find a way of taking out the update source to stop it pointing to the server or web update. I am using Enterprise Console for my other managed and networked clients.

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    To install:

    If you didn't configure the CID (added sauconf.xml) it contains no updating policy - so simply copy it to a USB stick or whatever (make sure no update is in progress) and install from there. Turn off automatic updates. 

    To update:

    Update the copy on the stick (perhaps using some synchronizing tool), plug it into the PC and click Update now.

    I would try the following: install an additional SUM somewhere (a fairly recent PC should do), create a schedule to update once a day. Insert the stick, create a share on the stick, add a distribution share in the Update Manager to point to this share.

    Christian

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    Hello

    Follow this steps to update/upgrade the Sophos StandAlone clients (without internet/network)

    1) Copy from CID's the SAVSCFXP directory into the USB, CD or other media.

    2) Copy from the media into the C:\ root the SAVSCFXP directory (finally the hard disk contains C:\SAVSCFXP )

    2) Install Sophos Endpoint using the setup.exe file from C:\SAVSCFXP (don't need type any adittional info)

    3) Update the C:\SAVSCFXP directory with a new copy from CID's. When Sophos Auto-Update detect the changein files (.upd files) this proceed to update or upgrade the Sophos products in your PC.

    Regards,

    Linck Tello Flores

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    I said: I would try the following ...

    Never thought it'd work :smileywink:. Formatted the stick formatted with NTFS (SUM had a problem creating the folders, so I just formatted it with NTFS and it worked then ...). And running setup from the stick configures it as the update location. It could of course use some fine tuning (like using a subscription to a fixed version or pre-configuring the policies) but in principle it seems to work.

    I'll probably never use it so it was just an academic exercise and I'm curious: what do you do with these off-net computers and why do you have to protect them with Sophos? Why not some HDD protection?

    Christian   

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    Hey thanks for all the replies on this. I am testing a few options at the moment and I seem to have something working.

    these off net computers are running an application on them but they tend to swap files between these and usb pens then sometimes the usb pens are used on our networked PC's causing issues.

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