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New user to Sophos for Mac - problems reported in log

I have been evaluating AV products for the Mac. I am disappointed with several of the "star performers" from the Windows world, because they are buggy or unstable. So far Sophos seems the most trouble free.

However, after doing a full system scan, there were several issues that I think are problems with Sophos rather than actual malware. There was one file that I believe is a false positive. I uploaded that file to Sophos and they confirmed it was clean.

The reason I am writing this message is because the full scan also reported several "corrupted files", which I do not believe are corrupted. Typically they are bz2 files, but also some dmg, jar and exe files.

Is there a problem with this version of Sophos where it reports corrupted files that are not in fact corrupted?

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  • Thank you for the feedback!

    Out of curiosity, how is it interfering with those products?  I can make a few guesses regarding SuperDuper (the same issues that occur with Time Machine regarding file access and regarding targets that need to be excluded from scanning), but ES 2007 is a bit of a puzzler -- are you finding that the product is denying access to remote Exchange folders that contain malicious emails?

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  • Thank you for the feedback!

    Out of curiosity, how is it interfering with those products?  I can make a few guesses regarding SuperDuper (the same issues that occur with Time Machine regarding file access and regarding targets that need to be excluded from scanning), but ES 2007 is a bit of a puzzler -- are you finding that the product is denying access to remote Exchange folders that contain malicious emails?

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