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

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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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    Thanks for the reply! But when i was talking about the third party software, i ment if that would be the things that you ment when you said windows software that could allow malware to work. Also, When i was downloading sophos it said it was going to take 25 minutes to install so i canceled the installation and deleted it. I thought it was supposed to take only a little time to download. Also, was it ok to just cancel the installation and delete the installation file or will something be left there?

    Note i am talking about when i click the button for downloading for 10.4-10.7 and not the .pkg that has the terms of use/service and the actual av.

    Edit: In case you're wondering why i was asking this, i havent scanned for malware on my imac before and its 2-3 years old so i wanted to do a scan to check for malware so i dont send anything to window users. I have 1 windows computer in the same house as mostly macs so i wanted to make sure it was safe. I have already scanned with ClamXav so i was going to scan with sophos last to check for anything malicious/bad

    Edit2: Theres also a question/discussion i have on the regular sophos side /search?q= 1034971 you could help answer the questions i have left it you want.

    You also said that the antivirus is best for scanning files before opening them? How about on-demand scanning/custom scan/ hard drive scam? Does it work and detect the same things as the scan before opening thing?

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    Thanks for the reply! But when i was talking about the third party software, i ment if that would be the things that you ment when you said windows software that could allow malware to work. Also, When i was downloading sophos it said it was going to take 25 minutes to install so i canceled the installation and deleted it. I thought it was supposed to take only a little time to download. Also, was it ok to just cancel the installation and delete the installation file or will something be left there?

    Note i am talking about when i click the button for downloading for 10.4-10.7 and not the .pkg that has the terms of use/service and the actual av.

    Edit: In case you're wondering why i was asking this, i havent scanned for malware on my imac before and its 2-3 years old so i wanted to do a scan to check for malware so i dont send anything to window users. I have 1 windows computer in the same house as mostly macs so i wanted to make sure it was safe. I have already scanned with ClamXav so i was going to scan with sophos last to check for anything malicious/bad

    Edit2: Theres also a question/discussion i have on the regular sophos side /search?q= 1034971 you could help answer the questions i have left it you want.

    You also said that the antivirus is best for scanning files before opening them? How about on-demand scanning/custom scan/ hard drive scam? Does it work and detect the same things as the scan before opening thing?

    :1010708
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