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Large $$$ files

I am the IT manager for an Educational Institute.

Last night there were some error messages in the Event Viewer logs relating to virus scanning on one server (Windows Server 2003). As a result 5 or 6 large files with a $$$ extension were left in the Documents and Settings\Application data\Sophos\Temp folder. These were all over 2GB in size (can't get the actual error at the moment as I am restarting that server)

Sophos AV version is 7.6.15

sophos anti Virus service now will not start again.

any idea what would cause this. I was thinking to just delete these $$$ files and see what happens. Is this OK?

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0 QC over 14 years ago

Note: There's an excellent(*) article Sophos Anti-Virus: the Sophos Temp directory is full of $$$ files.

(*) I like the wordings: is full of ("Oh my God, it is full of $$$ files" - David Bowman), you have lots of files with ... and: In the unexpected event that these files remain (not In the unlikely event though) - now it is very likely that I only found them because they remained ... but that's probably nitpicking :smileywink:

By the way - has the service not starting issue been solved?

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0 QC over 14 years ago

Note: There's an excellent(*) article Sophos Anti-Virus: the Sophos Temp directory is full of $$$ files.

(*) I like the wordings: is full of ("Oh my God, it is full of $$$ files" - David Bowman), you have lots of files with ... and: In the unexpected event that these files remain (not In the unlikely event though) - now it is very likely that I only found them because they remained ... but that's probably nitpicking :smileywink:

By the way - has the service not starting issue been solved?

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