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Possible Bug?

LDMartin1959

I have noticed an odd situation. I am using the free Mac edition on Lion. Sophos keeps reporting infection in a couple of files in my Time Machine backup. But it does not report infection of the same files on the primary drive where the primary/original copies of those files reside. It simply doesn't make sense that the primary/original copy of a file could be free of infection and the backup copy made from that primary/original file could be infected. Rationally, one of these things is wrong: Rationally, either they are both infected or neither are infected. Not sure which is the case, but it certianly shakes my faith in Sophos AntiVirus.

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    sandy wrote:

    We have a dedicated support forum for Mac Home edition users, together with extensive documentation and links.

    Please go there and search through the forum/ask your questions.

    http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/MacTalk/ct-p/FTT_MAC

    You are aware that the forum you refernce does not appear anywhere in the support options drop-down menu on the main site...And since the issue is the detection system, and I would guess that it is the same one that is used in the licensed version of the AntiVirus software, and since my posting was in reference to a possible bug and not a direct request for support, I'm not sure that there is any benefit to be gained by my going to that forum. Regardless, I'd think that a report of a possible bug would be of interest regardless of the source.

    Perhaps I am mistaken.

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