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Using Sophos AV for Mac across networks

nigelh

Because my partner was having all sorts of issues with the AV utility installed on her Windows 7 laptop, I decided to try checkig it using SAV from my Mac via the home network. Because it was pretty slow via WiFi, I hooked up both computers with Ethernet and, I have to say, that ran pretty fast. It managed to check out her whole istallation in about 6-7 hours.

My question is, how valid are the results? No threats were found. I'm assuming that the Sophos utility on the Mac does know about all threats applicable to Windows, but is my assumption a good one?

It's a real pity that Sophos (surprisingly!) do not make an equivalent AV utility for Windows (though I'm sure that most of their software IS applicable to Windows environments), because my partner is having a really hard time finding an internet security package (paid or otherwise) that WORKS properly on Windows, without stupid failures. We're still looking for the optimum solution for her system, but in general, support from the makers of Windows AV/IS software also seems to be quite abysmal!

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    Many thanks for the reply, Diz, and the confirmation of validity when using SAV for Mac as I described.

    Also, yes, I agree with you fully that there is too much complacency within the Mac community. As someone who regularly exchanges files with Windows-using clients, I'm only too aware of the possibility of malware being transferred to them inadvertently. From experience, though, I've never ingerited malware from anything I've downloaded myself, only from files that those Windows-using clients have sent me! :smileywink: Still, at least that allows me to 'do them a favour' by advising them of the fact that they have a problem!

    Thank you for the link to the page about the paid Sophos products. I did have an online chat with someone in Sophos, via the website, to ask what was available for Windows that might be in any way equivalent to the utility that I'm using on Mac, but they didn't refer to these possibilities at all. Maybe they didn't fully understand that price was not the issue for what I was asking about and thought I was asking for something that was similarly *free*? Anyway, we'll check out these paid options - they're understandably more expensive than most other options, but that isn't necessarily a problem!

    Thanks again!

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    Many thanks for the reply, Diz, and the confirmation of validity when using SAV for Mac as I described.

    Also, yes, I agree with you fully that there is too much complacency within the Mac community. As someone who regularly exchanges files with Windows-using clients, I'm only too aware of the possibility of malware being transferred to them inadvertently. From experience, though, I've never ingerited malware from anything I've downloaded myself, only from files that those Windows-using clients have sent me! :smileywink: Still, at least that allows me to 'do them a favour' by advising them of the fact that they have a problem!

    Thank you for the link to the page about the paid Sophos products. I did have an online chat with someone in Sophos, via the website, to ask what was available for Windows that might be in any way equivalent to the utility that I'm using on Mac, but they didn't refer to these possibilities at all. Maybe they didn't fully understand that price was not the issue for what I was asking about and thought I was asking for something that was similarly *free*? Anyway, we'll check out these paid options - they're understandably more expensive than most other options, but that isn't necessarily a problem!

    Thanks again!

    :1013304
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