Change Sophos AntiVirus Updater Username/Password

Sometimes it may be necessary to update the username/password for the Sophos Updater. However, it's not necessarily straightforward..

  1. Edit file C:\ProgramData\Sophos\AutoUpdate\Config\iconn.cfg
  2. You can opt to set 'AllowLocalConfig' to '1', which will enable the GUI for username/password
  3. And/Or, you can set things manually, should know already know the encoded password value, as below:
    UserName = <domain>\<username>
    UserPassword = <encoded password value>

Getting Windows error 1222?

Make sure that NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users is a member of the local computer's 'Users' group

Ref: https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118209

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