As a new user of Sophos based on the glowing review in the January MacTech magazine, I have been trying to figure out WHY Sophos finds issues with incoming email attachments, but A) only lists them in the Quarantine Manager and B) does nothing about them.
I finally realized that the DEFAULT setting for both "Scan Local Drives" and "On-Access Scanning" is to "log only" and "deny access" respectively.
I realize that my expectations are from many years of evaluating site-licensed McAfee and Norton and now Symantics anti-virus tools on the Mac, however, the idea that the "default" action is NOT "clean-up" the threat is simply shocking.
Furthermore, it appears that while Sophos can find various threats, it can do nothing about them.... they all get tagged -- "Clean up manually" or most recently, "Scan local Drives." ... and these for the SAME "Threat." (Or at least they are identified as the same by the Quarantine Manager.
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