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SAV and TimeMachine

st181234

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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    virus12321 wrote:

    … I told the Quarantine Manager to clean the viruses on the Time Machine backup - this was DURING a Time Machine backup process; Sophos was popping up with virus alerts while backing up …

    Interesting. 

    Did all alerts relate to detections on the backup device?

    Or did some alerts relate to items on your Mac, that were detected at the moment of (trying to) backup? 

    virus12321 wrote:

    …  I decided to try to clean the Time Machine backup. (Sophos tried to clean off /Volumes/Data/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle).

    Do you use Time Capsule? 

    When you say

    "clean off /Volumes/Data/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" 

    do you mean that it tried to clean the .sparsebundle itself — treating the .sparsebundle as a single item?

    :1000879
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    virus12321 wrote:

    … I told the Quarantine Manager to clean the viruses on the Time Machine backup - this was DURING a Time Machine backup process; Sophos was popping up with virus alerts while backing up …

    Interesting. 

    Did all alerts relate to detections on the backup device?

    Or did some alerts relate to items on your Mac, that were detected at the moment of (trying to) backup? 

    virus12321 wrote:

    …  I decided to try to clean the Time Machine backup. (Sophos tried to clean off /Volumes/Data/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle).

    Do you use Time Capsule? 

    When you say

    "clean off /Volumes/Data/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" 

    do you mean that it tried to clean the .sparsebundle itself — treating the .sparsebundle as a single item?

    :1000879
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