Scan on shutdown

[Glen MacDonald-2]

My uni's licensed anti-virus application is Sophos and it does not have the ability to scan on shutdown.  Only on startup or at scheduled times.  Has anyone found an anti-virus application that can be sheduled to scan at shutdown, or a means to get Windows XP run an anti-virus at shutdown?  

Thanks,
Glen

Glen MacDonald
Core for Communication Research
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
Box 357923
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7923  USA
[phone]
[hidden email]

[Nathan-64]

Hey Glen,

  if you can run Sophos via the command line, you might be able to scan via a shutdown script.  I used the procedure from the following two pages to assign a script that resets camera parameters at user logoff.

The directions detail accessing and assigning scripts in the Group Policy editor in the Microsoft Management Console.

This first page, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307882 , provides directions for opening the Group Policy Editor in WinXP. Go to the section titled, "How to Start the Group Policy Editor".

This next page, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/gptext_assigncomputershutdownscripts.mspx?mfr=true , provides directions for assigning shutdown scripts in the Group Policy object snap-in.

Hope that helps,
Nate

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Glen MacDonald <[hidden email]> wrote:

My uni's licensed anti-virus application is Sophos and it does not have the ability to scan on shutdown.  Only on startup or at scheduled times.  Has anyone found an anti-virus application that can be sheduled to scan at shutdown, or a means to get Windows XP run an anti-virus at shutdown?

Thanks,
Glen

Glen MacDonald
Core for Communication Research
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
Box 357923
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7923  USA
[phone]
[hidden email]

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Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY