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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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    Sophos is still investigating the issue reported by a small number of users on this forum about Time Machine backups being deleted whilst running Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. As a precautionary measure, while our investigation continues, we would recommend that, if you detect malware in your Time Machine backup,you do not tell Sophos to clean it up.

    From a protection point of view, you are still safe. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition continues to protect you (through its on-access scanner), checking any file you access for malware, including files restored from backup.

    As our investigations continue we will provide further updates.

    (Thanks to grahamperrin for pointing out I'd originally posted this in the wrong place.)

    Regards,

    spike

    :1000783
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    Sophos is still investigating the issue reported by a small number of users on this forum about Time Machine backups being deleted whilst running Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. As a precautionary measure, while our investigation continues, we would recommend that, if you detect malware in your Time Machine backup,you do not tell Sophos to clean it up.

    From a protection point of view, you are still safe. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition continues to protect you (through its on-access scanner), checking any file you access for malware, including files restored from backup.

    As our investigations continue we will provide further updates.

    (Thanks to grahamperrin for pointing out I'd originally posted this in the wrong place.)

    Regards,

    spike

    :1000783
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