To enable Sophos Anti-Virus to display desktop messages when a threat is found, do as follows. This applies only to on-access scanning.
Enable desktop messaging
Select this to enable Sophos Anti-Virus to display desktop messages when a threat is found.
Messages to send
Select the events for which you want Sophos Anti-Virus to display desktop messages.
User-defined message
In this text box, you can type a message that will be added to the end of the standard message.