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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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    Hello Barbie,

    I have waited for "real users" to reply but no one did, so ...

    Now there can't be a definite answer as it depends on the number of files, their type (i.e whether they could contain "malware" in the first place) and whether archives are scanned (this is enabled by default). Together these determine the amount of data to be scanned, the effort required and resources needed (e.g. archives have to be unpacked which need CPU and disk space). Of course the performance of the Mac is also a factor. Thus the time needed can range from, I'd say, less than an hour on a fast and "virgin" machine to many hours, days or even virtually forever.

    Christian

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    Hello Barbie,

    I have waited for "real users" to reply but no one did, so ...

    Now there can't be a definite answer as it depends on the number of files, their type (i.e whether they could contain "malware" in the first place) and whether archives are scanned (this is enabled by default). Together these determine the amount of data to be scanned, the effort required and resources needed (e.g. archives have to be unpacked which need CPU and disk space). Of course the performance of the Mac is also a factor. Thus the time needed can range from, I'd say, less than an hour on a fast and "virgin" machine to many hours, days or even virtually forever.

    Christian

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