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does sophos actually detect any mac viri or threats?

ed_andrews

prior to osx there were a few actual mac viruses [8 if i remember]

these would only be found in old mac files and software

does sophos detect them?

i have a library of old mac software which is updated periodically and need this ability

post osx there was reportedly one trojan [reported by an av company but never seen by anyone else i know]

does sophos detect it

does sophos detect when facebook, google or some other ant-social network starts following me around the net and collecting data about me?

and does sophos detect any threats that actually currently affect me as a mac only user

by this i don't mean theoretical future possible threats

so far it seems to only detect pc stuff

:1000497


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    Agile wrote:

    … our engine does detect malicious iFrames, JavaScripts, Flash, and other "web bugs" of a malicious nature.  To get more control over your web browsing, you would need a third party tool or purchase our Web Appliance. …

    This is a really interesting topic

    (kudos given :-)

    I'm curious. If neither edition of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X scans network traffic to the browser, then how are those web bugs detected by the engine?

    My limited understanding is that SAV for Mac scans only what's on disk.

    Does the engine hook into browser APIs, or system APIs, to detect threats without writes to disk? Something like that? 

    AFAIR on my Mac there was one threat in a cached WebHistory file, which sparked my curiosity but beyond that, this sort of stuff is fairly mysterious to me. 

    It'd be good to see a user-friendly explanation in one of the Sophos blogs. Not giving away the crown jewels of Sophos ;) just enough to cast light on a grey area …

    Many thanks

    :1000537
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    Agile wrote:

    … our engine does detect malicious iFrames, JavaScripts, Flash, and other "web bugs" of a malicious nature.  To get more control over your web browsing, you would need a third party tool or purchase our Web Appliance. …

    This is a really interesting topic

    (kudos given :-)

    I'm curious. If neither edition of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X scans network traffic to the browser, then how are those web bugs detected by the engine?

    My limited understanding is that SAV for Mac scans only what's on disk.

    Does the engine hook into browser APIs, or system APIs, to detect threats without writes to disk? Something like that? 

    AFAIR on my Mac there was one threat in a cached WebHistory file, which sparked my curiosity but beyond that, this sort of stuff is fairly mysterious to me. 

    It'd be good to see a user-friendly explanation in one of the Sophos blogs. Not giving away the crown jewels of Sophos ;) just enough to cast light on a grey area …

    Many thanks

    :1000537
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