Viruses (real and hoaxes) are an ever-growing problem on the Internet, and present an ever-growing problem for end-users and IT departments. Through a site-license acquired by ITS, ENC provides Sophos Anti-Virus software to the College community at no cost to the individual.

In order to install Sophos on your computer, your computer will need to be connected to the ENC network. Installation of Sophos is restricted to current ENC students, faculty and staff only. If you have Sophos already installed but need to configure it, click here.

Follow the instruction to install Sophos and set it to automatic update.

• Right Click on My Computer.

• Click on “Map Network Drive.”

• Type \\av\support in the blank field.

• Check the “Reconnect on logon” box and press OK.

• A new window will pop up with different files and folders. Double click on the file "goav".

•After double clicking on "goav," the sophos setup will begin. Click on Next.

• Check the InterCheck Client Box and click Next.

• You will get Installation Options next, uncheck the Auto-update and Prevent removal box

•You are almost done! Click on Finish.

• The screen below will appear on the screen confirming that Sophos installation is taking place.

•Click on Run Sophos Anti-Virus.

•You are now done installing Sophos Anti-Virus software. Now you need to run Sophos.

• Click on Start->All Programs->Sophos Anti-Virus->Sophos Anti-Virus.

• Next you need to configure your Sophos. Click here for instructions.