Sophos Anti-Virus
What is Sophos Anti-Virus?
Sophos Anti-Virus is software application developed by Sophos Limited. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 56.67% of installations running this operating system. Sophos Anti-Virus's installer is typically 3.00 MB in size and installs around 156 files. The most common release is 10.3.15 with 13.69% of all installations currently using this version.
Sophos Anti-Virus is most popular in the United States with 59.66% of installations residing in this country.
Sophos Anti-Virus adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Sophos Anti-Virus is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
Software Behaviors
- Services:
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- SAVAdminService.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Anti-Virus status reporter' (SAVAdminService) "Provides information to Windows Security Center on whether Sophos Anti-Virus is up to date and whether on-access scanning is enabled.".
- SAVCleanupService.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Cleanup Service' (SAVCleanupService) "Performs cleanup functions.".
- SavService.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Anti-Virus' (SAVService) "Performs threat scanning and cleanup functions.".
- swi_service.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Web Intelligence Service' (swi_service) "Protects against threats from malicious websites.".
- swc_service.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Web Control Service' (Sophos Web Control Service) "Manages Web Control policy.".
- swi_filter.exe runs as a service named 'Sophos Web Filter' (swi_filter) "Ensures web usage is safe and consistent with policy.".
- Firewall:
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- SavMain.exe is added as a firewall exception for '%programfiles%\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\SavMain.exC:*:enableC:SophosAV'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- BackgroundScanClient.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Hebdo Vendredi 12h30' (runs weekly on Fridays at 12:30).
- SavMain.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F732D63F-29E3-4E57-B48F-154965ED74AD}' (runs on registration).
Software Details
- URL:
- https://www.sophos.com
- Support:
- https://www.sophos.com/support
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\
- Uninstaller:
- MsiExec.exe /X{9ACB414D-9347-40B6-A453-5EFB2DB59DFA}
- Size:
- 3.00 MB
- Language:
- English
Sophos Anti-Virus Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- SAVAdminService.exe
- Name:
- Sophos Anti-Virus
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\SAVAdminService.exe
- MD5:
- 791ee9f4a82fc4e13133f107c1c4c286
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
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6dd5edd38653acd5a03ffba08e9a44c8 | |
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008f4c70cb62ab49fd90e47ec89339ba | |
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3916a3f54a1d1bff76a2c3dd9f0c61ae | |
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8688791c9e589ee2c365b3af25317d81 | |
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DLL
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b62c51ce5b8fb0647509129f281cab7e | |
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DLL
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8ca7c136504f55c8315aa8c9b7f03154 | |
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DLL
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90aea94d521834d4c9a88e21bafbbd49 | |
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3932003f83ee618af445b1f71057238c | |
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c0350298f22f076891767bbdb2d35fe6 | |
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0d9735d975812d3af4fb683d7a25c8b7 |