Allow access to drives with infected boot sectors

Sophos Endpoint Security and Control

Allow access to drives with infected boot sectors

Important: If a management console is used to administer Sophos Endpoint Security and Control on this computer, it may override any changes you make here.

By default, Sophos Anti-Virus prevents access to removable disks whose boot sectors are infected.

To allow access (for example, to copy files from a floppy disk infected with a boot sector virus):

  1. Click Home > Anti-virus and HIPS > Configure anti-virus and HIPS > Configure > On-access scanning .
  2. On the Scanning tab, select Allow access to drives with infected boot sectors check box.
Important: As soon as you have finished accessing the disk, clear the check box, and then remove the disk from the computer so that it cannot try to re-infect the computer on restart.