grey shield

are you useing the new one 8

Yes, I am. The latest update.

Thanks!

BP

ok same

it did this to me i think its trying to go to a server on my network but i don't know if you have server of SMB or AFP server

as i have a local file server and when i disconnected it went back to Black :?

i think it trying to let you know what you do on it Sophos can't look after you as it not part of the drive ? 

Thanks again, pdiaz. Where can I look to ascertain whether I have SMB or AFP,

or what local file servers I may have? I can then try turning them off. Does an

external hard drive count as a server? Or Airport Extreme?

I can't find any reference to AFP or SMB in Mac Help, so I am a bit lost

as to what I should be looking for.

When I first used Sophos it did detect a Trojan, so it seems to be taking

care of my primary drive, and the green button in preferences says as much.

BP

SMB is Windows File Sharing.  AFP is regular (Apple) File Sharing.  If you've got other Macs on the network, they share using AFP by default; Windows uses SMB by default.

External drives are considered local, and are included in the default "scan local drives" scan as well as on-access scanning.  Networked drives (drives hosted somewhere other than your physical computer) are not.

Thanks Andrew for your helpful reply..

I do have a local area network in thr house, which may explain the grey shield.

But am i correct in assumming that so long as the green light in the 

on-access preference is on, Sophos is covering my main computer,

irrespective of the colour of the shield?

BP

.......... :)

If you want to verify, you can test by searching for eicar at Wikipedia.  This is a test file that will trigger a detection.  Download the sample available on the wikipedia page, and if it gets detected, you're protected.  If it doesn't, there's a bug that needs to be reported to Sophos.

Thanks Andrew, did the eicar test and it was detected.

BP