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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?
Alphaman wrote:I've added my TM volume to the SAV exclusion list …
All: be aware that an exclusion for On-access Scanning is
not effective for Scan Local Drives.
Pending the results of investigations by Sophos:
if your Time Machine backs up to a local volume — and if you Scan Local Drives —
I should recommend setting the preference for that predefined scan to
√ Log only (nothing more):
Alphaman wrote:I've added my TM volume to the SAV exclusion list …
All: be aware that an exclusion for On-access Scanning is
not effective for Scan Local Drives.
Pending the results of investigations by Sophos:
if your Time Machine backs up to a local volume — and if you Scan Local Drives —
I should recommend setting the preference for that predefined scan to
√ Log only (nothing more):
