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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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    i might be confused about what bootcamp is but i dont have windows on my mac to infect.

    Also earlier you said that it detects iexplore.exe malware but it doesnt garentee it will detect them all. What do you mean by this? Are there ones sophos doesnt know about that it cant find or is it just that sophos doesnt find it even though it is in the database? Does sophos only look for malware from its database? Or when i choose to scan files, will it only scan for malware in its database or will it also check to see if a file/item is suspicious based on its contents and what it does?

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    i might be confused about what bootcamp is but i dont have windows on my mac to infect.

    Also earlier you said that it detects iexplore.exe malware but it doesnt garentee it will detect them all. What do you mean by this? Are there ones sophos doesnt know about that it cant find or is it just that sophos doesnt find it even though it is in the database? Does sophos only look for malware from its database? Or when i choose to scan files, will it only scan for malware in its database or will it also check to see if a file/item is suspicious based on its contents and what it does?

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