Julian,
On Red Hat (and maybe other) systems, the default install
creates the file /etc/cron.daily/Sophos.autoupdate.  To make
things cleaner for systems that don't use Sophos, would you
mind adding the following line near the top of that script?
        [ -x /usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep ] || exit 0
Thanks.
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        Devin Reade             <gdr at gno.org>