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On-Access Scanning not working - any ideas?

lightningad

According to "Agile" in a different post - "The main component of  Sophos Anti-Virus does on-access scanning, meaning whenever a file is created, read, or written to, the contents will be scanned. "  which i find worrying because my copy of Sophos (8.0.3   but also previous versions) steadfastly refuses to allow me to switch the On-Access Scanning mode on.

I have recently upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 on my Mac but i am fairly sure the On-Access scanning stopped working before that. I know it used to work, and was quite surprised one day when a message popped up telling me it was no longer activated. Since then i have been unable to activate it again.

Even tried re-installing an older v7 copy of Sophos and whilst it did appear to work for an hour or so, I noticed later that the version had upgraded itself to v8 and the scanning was off again.

So can anyone suggest what could possibly be the problem and what the solution is?

adam

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    not quite!

    I have only upgraded to mac 10.7.3 - will not be doing the 10.7.4 upgrade as there are too many reported problems with attached raids that i cannot risk it.

    I was originally running v8 and only downgraded to v7 when OnAccess Scanning ceased to be operative.  

    This worked for a short while.

    When it stopped working again, i checked this forum and spotted that sophos had updated so i downloaded and reinstalled v8. That has not fixed the problem.

    adam

    :1007229
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    not quite!

    I have only upgraded to mac 10.7.3 - will not be doing the 10.7.4 upgrade as there are too many reported problems with attached raids that i cannot risk it.

    I was originally running v8 and only downgraded to v7 when OnAccess Scanning ceased to be operative.  

    This worked for a short while.

    When it stopped working again, i checked this forum and spotted that sophos had updated so i downloaded and reinstalled v8. That has not fixed the problem.

    adam

    :1007229
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