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New to Sophos - what is actually running?

iwisa

Hi,

I need to install AV software on to a Mac running Snow Leopard that is used for audio recording with Pro Tools.  How do I configure Sophos so that it is not constantly running (using up CPU) as PT needs as much CPU as possible.  I only need to to manually scan external drives when they are connected so the system itself does not need constant monitoring.  I read on one forum post here that Sophos is constantly checking the system and it's folders - is there a way to turn all of this off?

Thanks!

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    Back when the flash malware came out I did all the scans Apple instructed and believed all three of our machines were clean.

    Today after doing a full Sophos scan (that took overnight), the system tells me I have OSX/Flshplyr-D in five locations on my time machine backup drive, though thankfully nothing in my hard drive.

    Here's what I am reading:

    Threat:    OSX/Flshplyr-D
    Date:        Dec 6, 2013 11:06 AM
    Path and filename:
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-03-29-092109/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-04-11-082740/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-04-25-105948/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-05-02-104853/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-05-10-155554/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate

    When I go to the time machine files for each instance above, I am not seeing the last item in the path called /.sunupdate

    The only thing I see is an alias for SendRegistration that has the time/datestamp indicated above. WHen I go to the original file it brings me to the SendUpdate application from when I purchased the machine.

    I cannot create a custom scan for these paths, as the paths as listed in the quarantine manager does not look like what I am seeing in the time machine backups.

    What should I do? Thanks everyone -

    :1014867
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    Back when the flash malware came out I did all the scans Apple instructed and believed all three of our machines were clean.

    Today after doing a full Sophos scan (that took overnight), the system tells me I have OSX/Flshplyr-D in five locations on my time machine backup drive, though thankfully nothing in my hard drive.

    Here's what I am reading:

    Threat:    OSX/Flshplyr-D
    Date:        Dec 6, 2013 11:06 AM
    Path and filename:
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-03-29-092109/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-04-11-082740/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-04-25-105948/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-05-02-104853/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate,
    /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Robert Wilson’’’’s iMac/2012-05-10-155554/Macintosh HD/Users/robertwilson/.sunupdate

    When I go to the time machine files for each instance above, I am not seeing the last item in the path called /.sunupdate

    The only thing I see is an alias for SendRegistration that has the time/datestamp indicated above. WHen I go to the original file it brings me to the SendUpdate application from when I purchased the machine.

    I cannot create a custom scan for these paths, as the paths as listed in the quarantine manager does not look like what I am seeing in the time machine backups.

    What should I do? Thanks everyone -

    :1014867
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