Monitoring activity with savimon.exe

A utility, savimon.exe, enables you to monitor SAV Interface activity for all current versions of Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows.

Information provided includes:

• the status of each Sophos Anti-Virus plug-in
• the status of Sophos Anti-Virus services
• file last scanned
• last virus detected
• number of files scanned
• number of viruses detected
• number of errors.

What to do

1. You can download savimon.exe in a self-extracting archive from the website.
2. Double-click 'savimon.exe' to run it.
3. If any applications are, or have been using SAV Interface, then the SAVI Monitor window will display a list of names of SAVI objects which have been created by those applications. A green light by the SAVI object name indicates that it is currently active. Click the name of a SAVI object to see:
   • the name of the last item scanned for viruses
   • the last virus discovered
   • the total number of items scanned, viruses found and errors encountered.

Note: You cannot view a remote computer using savimon.exe in a terminal server, or remote desktop, session. The status details will not be displayed correctly. You can however use Virtual Network Computing (VNC) to run savimon.exe remotely.