My network has 5 machines; 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and 3 Linux Mint 17.1 machines. One W2008 machine is the domain controller and the other exists to run Enterprise Console version 5.2.1 R2. Sophos downloads and all machine updates of Sophos AV is controlled by the EC machine.
One of the Linux machines is used solely as a backup machine for the other 4 machines and backups are done as scheduled tasks on each machine. Ages ago when my Windows XP machine was due to be retired I copied across a load of files from the XP machine to the Server 2008 machine as a second backup with no problem. An apparent problem only arose when I installed the Linux machine and started using it for backups. 5 and only 5 files from the XP backup set on my Windows server machine are flagged as Virus/Spyware by the Endpoint AV on the Linux machine despite the same software finding no problem with those very same files in the Windows machine.
So - comments:
The versions of AV on both machines are the same and kept up to date automatically by Enterprise Console
The files are bog standard system files or standard program files - nothing unusual
I can't understand why Sophos AV on one machine complains and on another doesn't - so suggestions for how I can track down the problem would be very welcome.
It is irritating, rather than important, because they are only there as a backup and not actually in use. Actually I could delete them without noticing it; but I don't like unexplained oddities.
David Cluley
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