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Can anyone guide me as a new user of SOPHOS?

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For starters, two questions: 

** My main purpose in downloading the home version (on the advice of my Apple tech support person) was to determine if my outgoing emails (via AOL on my desktop) were being infected with a worm (that went to recipients and deposited a virus). When the scan determined "no threats found," does that mean no worm was found?  

** With the download, is SOPHOS now running on my system or do I need to activate it somehow to provide the 24-7 protection it promises? Or just manually do the scan once a week, after updating it?

Thanks.

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    Upstater wrote:

    ** My main purpose in downloading the home version (on the advice of my Apple tech support person) was to determine if my outgoing emails (via AOL on my desktop) were being infected with a worm (that went to recipients and deposited a virus). When the scan determined "no threats found," does that mean no worm was found?  

    Nice that Apple tech support is recommending antivirus - makes a change.

    A clean scan means there is no malware on your computer - as long as your installation is up-to-date (click the Sophos shield and select 'Update Now')

    Upstater wrote:

    ** With the download, is SOPHOS now running on my system or do I need to activate it somehow to provide the 24-7 protection it promises? Or just manually do the scan once a week, after updating it?

    You need to download, install and then update it (as described above).  After that on-access scanning is protecting your Mac if the Sophos shield is black (no gray) in the menu bar.  See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Mac-tools-help/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-menu-bar-shields/td-p/14325

    You can then set up an on-demand scan if you like (to search the whole hard drive for malware).

    To get yourself up to speed have a watch of the YouTube video playlist linked below.  It shows all of the important steps and how to do various tasks...

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    Upstater wrote:

    ** My main purpose in downloading the home version (on the advice of my Apple tech support person) was to determine if my outgoing emails (via AOL on my desktop) were being infected with a worm (that went to recipients and deposited a virus). When the scan determined "no threats found," does that mean no worm was found?  

    Nice that Apple tech support is recommending antivirus - makes a change.

    A clean scan means there is no malware on your computer - as long as your installation is up-to-date (click the Sophos shield and select 'Update Now')

    Upstater wrote:

    ** With the download, is SOPHOS now running on my system or do I need to activate it somehow to provide the 24-7 protection it promises? Or just manually do the scan once a week, after updating it?

    You need to download, install and then update it (as described above).  After that on-access scanning is protecting your Mac if the Sophos shield is black (no gray) in the menu bar.  See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Mac-tools-help/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-menu-bar-shields/td-p/14325

    You can then set up an on-demand scan if you like (to search the whole hard drive for malware).

    To get yourself up to speed have a watch of the YouTube video playlist linked below.  It shows all of the important steps and how to do various tasks...

    :1014635
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