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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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    Eriq wrote:

    I accidentally deleted my post from earlier so:

    Also, will sophos continue to scan when i choose to run a harddrive/custom/on-demand scan and turn my imac on sleep mode? Will it continue scanning my files or will it stop/pause?

    When your computer is asleep, all processing functionality halts -- this includes malware scans.  The only things still running are your network adapter, your USB bus (in low power mode -- activity on the bus wakes the computer to handle the input) and the scheduler, as far as I know) and your memory.

    Hard disks and monitors are the main things turned off during sleep mode; this means that any activity requiring hard disk access is also halted, such as scanning the contents of said hard disk.

    That said, the scan *should* resume upon wakeup, as should all other functions.

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    Eriq wrote:

    I accidentally deleted my post from earlier so:

    Also, will sophos continue to scan when i choose to run a harddrive/custom/on-demand scan and turn my imac on sleep mode? Will it continue scanning my files or will it stop/pause?

    When your computer is asleep, all processing functionality halts -- this includes malware scans.  The only things still running are your network adapter, your USB bus (in low power mode -- activity on the bus wakes the computer to handle the input) and the scheduler, as far as I know) and your memory.

    Hard disks and monitors are the main things turned off during sleep mode; this means that any activity requiring hard disk access is also halted, such as scanning the contents of said hard disk.

    That said, the scan *should* resume upon wakeup, as should all other functions.

    :1010782
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