Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux protects Linux servers and desktops by detecting, reporting and disinfecting viruses, spyware, Trojans and worms. Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux protects Linux servers and desktops by detecting, reporting and disinfecting viruses, spyware, Trojans and worms. Scanning Provides on-access, on-demand and scheduled scanning using "at" or "cron" of volumes, directories and individual files via a secure Web GUI or command line interface.   Decision Caching technology improves on-access scanning performance by intercepting and scanning only files that have changed since last accessed. Management and configuration A secure Web GUI or command line interface provides administrators with central configuration and management of Sophos Anti-Virus on Linux computers. Updating Sophos Anti-Virus is kept up to date automatically: Using EM Library to distribute updates efficiently across a multi-platform network. Using cascading servers and Web-based updating direct from Sophos in pure Linux environments. Direct from Sophos or the company Website for offsite computers. Anti-virus technologies A range of technologies, including Dynamic Code Analysis--™, pattern matching, emulation and heuristics, automatically check for malicious code. Genotype detection technology proactively blocks families of viruses even before specific virus signatures are available. Virus alerts Administrators are kept up to date with virus incidents via SMTP email. Alerts for remote computers are queued until they connect to the network.