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Close Dock app when working in the background?

utahbox

Hi, I've got a Mac and have been using the same one for five years now, I thought I might have contracted the "DevilRobber" (OSX/Miner-D) virus because things were a bit sluggish, but it turned out I had three others instead! They were rare ones too. Well, they've all been cleaned off now so a big thank you to that. It's a shame that they exist, they were Flash based ones I think, whatever that means. It's very good of you to provide software for free, I remember Norton on Win95 etc...

There was just one thing.. I read that the software runs in the background, well, I was able to hide it from my menu bar, but not banish it from my Dock. In order be protected all the time does it have to be open in the Dock? If so then it would be good to remove it from there too, for aesthetic reasons.

Thanks!

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    Hmmm, I nearly got another virus today and the software wasn't open in the Dock, but jumped to my aid. I see then that from Activity Monitor that "SophosUIServer" is running in the background, I wasn't aware of this at first, it makes more sense this way and I'm glad for it, I just wish it was more obvious.

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    The software in the dock is only the interface to the manual scans, on-demand scans, quarantine manager, and software preferences.  The actual work goes on in background processes.

    I'd actually recommend that you keep the application that shows up in the dock quit unless you need access to one of the mentioned features.

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    other apps (mackbreak Z) that run in background have a setting to supress the app's icon from the dock, but leave a tiny favicon in the top right menu bar.  

    it's annoying to see the sophos icon in two places, when i prefer it in one place, on the top menu bar.  can anyone help?

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    The icon in the menu bar is to control the background processes; the icon in the dock is for the on-demand scanner, which is not a background process (although you can run it in the background while doing other tasks).

    As such, Sophos is doing exactly what you recommend.

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     From the replies on this thread I have no idea what Sophis are saying. Either it works in the background and therefore does not need to be on the dock or, it does not? The official ansers are vague and as with all anti-virus software there is virtually nothing written clearly about what you are supposed to do to set it up and use it. It's as if people who write software are so familiar with it that they forget that the rest of us are not.

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