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How do I determine the antivirus definitions date?

bhami

Auditors don't care how often a client gets updates from a server. They care about how current that data is; i.e. when did sophos.com generate it?

I can't figure out any way to determine the actual virus definitions data date. On my Sophos Anti-virus version 9 (Windows XP SP3) client, "view product information/ software" shows a (US mm/dd/yyyy format) "Virus data date" of 7/5/2010 and a "Last updated" date of 8/2/2010, but I think those are software engine dates, not definitions dates

At the other extreme, in the same client windows the "Status/ Last updated" date is just a few minutes ago and simply reflects when this client last spoke to its local (non-Internet-connected) server.

Where can I find the most recent date that sophos.com supplied definitions which are currently running on this client?

--Bruce

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    Thanks, Jak. "savcli32 -v" gives the answer I'm looking for.

    I would still like to know what is meaning of the date shown by "View Porduct information/ Software/ Virus data date". Right now it shows 4/4/2011, but what is weirder is that in late March it *also* showed 4/4/2011! Why is that date sometimes well into the future?

    --Bruce

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    Thanks, Jak. "savcli32 -v" gives the answer I'm looking for.

    I would still like to know what is meaning of the date shown by "View Porduct information/ Software/ Virus data date". Right now it shows 4/4/2011, but what is weirder is that in late March it *also* showed 4/4/2011! Why is that date sometimes well into the future?

    --Bruce

    :12383
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