Have installed Sophos on an Intel iMac OSX 10.6.8. The preferences panel says that on-access is on, but the menu bar shield is grey. Which is right?
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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.
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.