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Sophos Antivirus IS A Virus

PhillyD

It appears the latest update of Sophos has a virus/malware in it. By buying MacKeeper I was able to remove the Sophos Program and it's non-functioning Uninstaller. This has allowed me to use Safari without the pop-up every 3 seconds, but my machine is still buggy. I cannot open Chrome, Word, Excel, many websites or any of the other programs I need daily. Sophos has no Mac support, and nobody has responded to this query for help. My only conclusion is that Sophos neither knows much about Mac or wants to help or support Mac Users. This is very sad. It's even more astonishing to discover that my first Mac virus was carried into my machine on the back of an anti-virus program. Now that's a first - an antivirus that IS a virus.

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    PhillyD wrote:

    ...the pop-up every 3 seconds, but my machine is still buggy. I cannot open Chrome, Word, Excel, many websites or any of the other programs I need daily. Sophos has no Mac support, and nobody has responded to this query for help.

    What pop-up are you seeing? You don't describe it!  Better yet Grab it.

    PhillyD wrote:

    My only conclusion is that Sophos neither knows much about Mac or wants to help or support Mac Users.

    You post 'pop-up', 'buggy' and vague problems with opening applications (they don't open?, open with an error? open then error and close?).  Who can help with that!  Hang on...where is it...I had that Ouija board around here somewhere....darn it, nope can't find it.

    PhillyD wrote:

    even more astonishing to discover that my first Mac virus was carried into my machine on the back of an anti-virus program. Now that's a first - an antivirus that IS a virus.

    Utter ballz.

    I does sound like you're peed off and fed up and I would be too if a piece of software screwed up my Mac and I knew for def. that it was that software.  However I think you're aiming your temper at Sophos when it's not their fault.  If your Mac was running sweet before you installed SAV and immediately blew up after the installation then sounds like it could be SAV.  However without knowing what else was running on the computer, where the installer came from, what the checksum of the download was...you can't blame Sophos.  Plus there could have been malware on the computer and SAV gets installed and the malware - in its death throes - damages the machine (guessing - who really knows now).

    Now SAV is gone from the computer is it running OK?

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    PhillyD wrote:

    ...the pop-up every 3 seconds, but my machine is still buggy. I cannot open Chrome, Word, Excel, many websites or any of the other programs I need daily. Sophos has no Mac support, and nobody has responded to this query for help.

    What pop-up are you seeing? You don't describe it!  Better yet Grab it.

    PhillyD wrote:

    My only conclusion is that Sophos neither knows much about Mac or wants to help or support Mac Users.

    You post 'pop-up', 'buggy' and vague problems with opening applications (they don't open?, open with an error? open then error and close?).  Who can help with that!  Hang on...where is it...I had that Ouija board around here somewhere....darn it, nope can't find it.

    PhillyD wrote:

    even more astonishing to discover that my first Mac virus was carried into my machine on the back of an anti-virus program. Now that's a first - an antivirus that IS a virus.

    Utter ballz.

    I does sound like you're peed off and fed up and I would be too if a piece of software screwed up my Mac and I knew for def. that it was that software.  However I think you're aiming your temper at Sophos when it's not their fault.  If your Mac was running sweet before you installed SAV and immediately blew up after the installation then sounds like it could be SAV.  However without knowing what else was running on the computer, where the installer came from, what the checksum of the download was...you can't blame Sophos.  Plus there could have been malware on the computer and SAV gets installed and the malware - in its death throes - damages the machine (guessing - who really knows now).

    Now SAV is gone from the computer is it running OK?

    :1013034
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