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SAV and TimeMachine

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I installed the SAV for Mac today.

After installation, I made a local drive scan, and It found 4 threats.

I deleted the infected files.

After a while, I got alert from SAV that it denied access to the files, which had been deleted but still in my TimeMachine backup.

Although everything seems alright now, SAV interfered TimeMachine's operation.

Will this corrupt my TimeMachine backup?

:1000303


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    Backups made by Time Machine are read-only — so a backup of a threat should remain, in that backup, until that backup is eventually purged by Time Machine (when the volume used for backup lacks free space). 

    If you prefer your on-access scanner to automatically disinfect or remove threats — and if a threat is in an area that's read-only — I'd expect Sophos Anti-Virus to:

    1. fall back gracefully to simple quarantine listing of the threat; and 
    2. play nicely with other processes. 

    CORRECTION

     
    Backups made by Time Machine appear read-only to the end-user …
    :1000361
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    Backups made by Time Machine are read-only — so a backup of a threat should remain, in that backup, until that backup is eventually purged by Time Machine (when the volume used for backup lacks free space). 

    If you prefer your on-access scanner to automatically disinfect or remove threats — and if a threat is in an area that's read-only — I'd expect Sophos Anti-Virus to:

    1. fall back gracefully to simple quarantine listing of the threat; and 
    2. play nicely with other processes. 

    CORRECTION

     
    Backups made by Time Machine appear read-only to the end-user …
    :1000361
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