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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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    Sophos installs in about 2 mintues, depending on the speed of your computer.  Uninstallation is under 30 seconds.

    Scanning your entire computer (an on-demand scan) depends on the size of your hard disk and the kinds of files you have.  For a first scan, I'd say 2.5 hours is about normal, but some people have scans of 5+ hours -- probably best to have automatic updates disabled during your first scan.

    However, the main strength of AV software is not on-demand scans, but the on-access scanning -- it will check to see if a file is malicious when it is opened for reading/writing.

    The third party things you have are regular software -- they function just fine alongside Sophos.

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    Sophos installs in about 2 mintues, depending on the speed of your computer.  Uninstallation is under 30 seconds.

    Scanning your entire computer (an on-demand scan) depends on the size of your hard disk and the kinds of files you have.  For a first scan, I'd say 2.5 hours is about normal, but some people have scans of 5+ hours -- probably best to have automatic updates disabled during your first scan.

    However, the main strength of AV software is not on-demand scans, but the on-access scanning -- it will check to see if a file is malicious when it is opened for reading/writing.

    The third party things you have are regular software -- they function just fine alongside Sophos.

    :1010704
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