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Blue Sophos Shield/Black Sophos shield question

Melody

I forgot an important part of the question I posted earlier-- I installed Sophos today, but the Sophos shield on my toolbar is not black,  but blue.  I have it the preferences set  to have it always be background scanning,  but I'm not sure if that is working.  I'm sure Sophos is installed and active,  because I did do a manual scan of my whole computer right after I installed it.    That  took a very long time but worked.

How can I test to see if it is in fact performing background scans?   And if it isn't, even though the preferences are set for that, how might I correct this & get it to work properly?

Thanks for any help/answers. 

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    You can test your AV by visiting www.eicar.org. Here you can download a very small text file called eicar, which although not a virus is designed to look like one to AV engines. Its perfectly save and is widely used for simple testing. Indeed, I believe the files was originally written many years ago by Paul Ducklin, a Sophos Employee.

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    You can test your AV by visiting www.eicar.org. Here you can download a very small text file called eicar, which although not a virus is designed to look like one to AV engines. Its perfectly save and is widely used for simple testing. Indeed, I believe the files was originally written many years ago by Paul Ducklin, a Sophos Employee.

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