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FAQ: How to Setup Virus Scanning with Sophos Anti-Virus


Any version of Sophos Anti-Virus that has the ability to scan files as they are written to your hard drive is compatible with Notes POP3.

General Instructions

The following steps are general for configuring any virus scanner to work with Notes POP3. If a particular step is not possible on your virus scanner, skip the step.

Step 1
Within your virus scanner, turn on automatic scanning of inbound files (ie. files written to hard drive).

Step 2
Within your virus scanner, any option selected on how to handle infected files should operate automatically without user intervention (no pop-up messages or dialogs should occur).

Step 3
You scanner should only scan the SCAN subfolder of the Notes POP3 installation. The other folders and most importantly the DATA subfolder and all the folders under it should NOT be scanned.

Step 4
Enable virus scanning in Notes POP3.
While running Notes POP3 Administration program select:

Notes POP3 Configuration Virus Scanning

and enable virus scanning. See Notes POP3 Help for information on virus scanning options.
Example using Sophos Anti-Virus Server


Open Sophos Anti-Virus.

From the main menu select: Options Configure

Click the Action tab.



Ensure the opinions are as shown above.

Click the Check tab.



Ensure the opions are as shown above.


Example using Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 98/ME


Ensure that the Sophos InterCheck Monitor is running.



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