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A few questions about Mac Sophos antivirus(free home edition)

Airiq
Does the antivirus detect othe forms of malware or only Trojans and viruses? Does it detect windows malware as well? Do you know if it detects the malware iexplore.exe? If you ar wondering why I am asking, you can look at the forum discussion I had at the clamxav forums: http://www.markallan.co.uk/BB/viewtopic.php?t=2916&start=15
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    For the most part, I mean files ending with .exe that require Microsoft Windows to run -- but can be run inside OS X using various bits of third party software.

    However, as far as Sophos detections go, often PDF document exploits or other cross-platform attacks are flagged as Windows, but can be used against OS X as well.

    You say you have bootcamp enabled, which I presume means you're booting into Windows instead of OS X at some point.  When you're running Windows, you need a Windows AV solution to protect you, and your computer is vulnerable to all the Windows-based malware attacks out there.

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    For the most part, I mean files ending with .exe that require Microsoft Windows to run -- but can be run inside OS X using various bits of third party software.

    However, as far as Sophos detections go, often PDF document exploits or other cross-platform attacks are flagged as Windows, but can be used against OS X as well.

    You say you have bootcamp enabled, which I presume means you're booting into Windows instead of OS X at some point.  When you're running Windows, you need a Windows AV solution to protect you, and your computer is vulnerable to all the Windows-based malware attacks out there.

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