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. -- Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org>