Joanne Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Hi guys, The IT coordinator at one of my schools got some viruses on her computer and they have come from a pen drive, but not hers. I am running Sophos Enterprise Console 5.2 on the server and Endpoint version 10 on the clients. Is there a way to set Sophos to scan removable USB devices? I'm currently thinking that disabling autorun may be a good idea at the moment also. Ideas welcome!
Joanne Posted January 9, 2014 Author Posted January 9, 2014 Just an update, which might help others in this situation... Changed the following group policies: Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | AutoPlay Policies Turn off Autopay - enabled, turn off autoplay on: all drives Default behavior for AutoRun - enabled, do not execute any autorun commands.
Michael Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Just an update, which might help others in this situation... Changed the following group policies: Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | AutoPlay Policies Turn off Autopay - enabled, turn off autoplay on: all drives Default behavior for AutoRun - enabled, do not execute any autorun commands. I've set this for years for this exact reason. There are many viruses which exploit the autorun/autoplay function. Disabling it stops even infected memory sticks from spreading it across the network.
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