mrrad wrote:I live in an area where power blips and power failures have been common. I hesitate to leave the computer unattended all week in any power state other than completely off.
I would talk with Bishop and buy a 50.00 255 watt UPS (staples), even the small one will maintain a PC in standby for days. The church does advise to leave it on at least once a week (4 to 5 hours) so that sophos and TEM can do there thing
Just received this yesterday
July 2012 newsletter - Sophos
Sophos, is the official meetinghouse computer anti-virus/firewall software, approved for Church-owned computers. If you have or are using other anti-virus or firewalls please remove them and install Sophos.
Over the past several months, the client side engineering and operations teams have been working on improving desktop security.We have implemented some new best practices; upgraded server consoles, resolved many virus and potential issues in our environment, along with improving Sophos performance and capabilities.
The Sophos anti-virus system allows us to proactively manage the church’s entire fleet of computers worldwide from a central console(s) at Church Headquarters. We push updates, clean viruses remotely, and manage desktop firewall policies from Church Headquarters.
We have found some instances where Sophos has been disabled, removed or other anti-virus software is being used. We need your help to make sure that only Sophos is installed on Church owned computers. In addition, some computers are not being left on long enough to get all of the required updates and security patches. Please make sure Church computers are turned on four to five hours a week to receive updates for, but not limited to, Microsoft, Sophos, Adobe, and MLS.
New enhancements for Sophos: