sophos v5 updating

[Mark Nienberg]

shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Mark Nienberg schrieb:
>> On the Sophos download website I see that v5 download file is 50Mb, 
>> while v4 is only 12Mb. I suppose that is because v5 has on-access 
>> scanning capability,
> 
> and a gui (sav-web), ...
> 
>> If I use v5 will I have to download a 50Mb engine update every month? 
> 
> no.
> sophos v5 has its own update mechanism.
> see "roots crontab"  or  "/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-autoupdate"
> `/opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdate`
> 
> # du -sh /opt/sophos-av/update/
> 29M     /opt/sophos-av/update/

OK, I'll push on with it then.  Thanks for the info.
Mark