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Need two Sophos pkgs for Mac/Parallels?

I use Parallels for Mac, a Windows 7 emulator that works great when I need it. What Sophos should I order for both Mac and Windows protection?

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0 Agile over 13 years ago

Sophos Mac Home AV is a Mac-only product. For realtime protection of your Windows guest VM, you'll need AV software running under Windows.
However, since Mac Home AV scans the filesystem, if the Windows FS is mounted on your Mac host, it will get scanned. The actual product uses the same detection engine as our enterprise Windows product, so malware will get detected on the guest drive as well.
HOWEVER, if the guest drive is not mounted in your host, it won't be scanned.
Plus, if you have it both running and mounted (not usually a good idea), if both OSes have AV software running, they may conflict, causing unexpected results.
Was that understandable?
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0 nhirsh33 over 13 years ago

Thanks for responding. Understood your message well enough to be satisfied with one copy of Sophos. Parallels creates a Windows directory on the (mounted) OSX hard drive. Starting Parallels causes Windows to start. Shutting down Parallels causes Windows to shut down. When Parallels is executing, I can see OSX files from inside Windows, and vice versa---and I can drag files between them. FYI.
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0 Agile over 13 years ago

Thanks for the feedback :)
Parallels is the one virtual machine that I haven't worked with extensively. Sounds like you get file-level protection "for free" by using the Mac product. Running another AV solution inside Parallels would definitely cause problems under this configuration.
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