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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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    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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    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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