Turn Sophos Live Protection on or off
If you use role-based administration:
- You must have the Policy setting - anti-virus and HIPS right to perform this task.
- You cannot edit a policy if it is applied outside your active sub-estate.
Sophos Live Protection checks suspicious files against the latest information in the SophosLabs database.
By default, Live Protection sends file data such as checksums to Sophos for checking, but does not send sample files for analysis. To take full advantage of Live Protection, you should select the option to send sample files.
To turn Live Protection options on or off: