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Manually Scan Downloads

ryanhanau

I'm using Sophos Anti-Virus tool version 9.0.7.

When I download a file from a Web site such as a pdf do I need to manually scan it for viruses (right click and choose form contextual menu to scan) or will Sophos Anti-Virus automatically scan it for me

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    ruckus wrote:
    ZRL1 wrote:

    would the Malicious Download Blocker catch and block that too?

    No, it's not a web browser.  On-access would detect malware if written to disk - depending on settings.  What you're suggesting is a plugin for email scanner.  More protection, but then again another process taking memory and CPU.  :smileysurprised:

    My bad. I should have said that I use Thunderbird as my email client. While it's not a web browser, its internals appear to offer some of the features that Firefox does, if that makes any difference, and the content of the email, good or bad, is written locally.

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    ZRL1 wrote:

    scanned, as they arrive, by the local AV engine in the same way as if, after the download is finished, I select the file and scan it with SophosAV?

    Sort-of-ish.  Because it's coming via a browser the SophosWebIntelligence hands off to the SophosScanD process.

    As long as some component of Sophos is scanning the file, that means I don't have to do it again, which is what I've been doing.:smileyhappy:
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    ruckus wrote:
    ZRL1 wrote:

    would the Malicious Download Blocker catch and block that too?

    No, it's not a web browser.  On-access would detect malware if written to disk - depending on settings.  What you're suggesting is a plugin for email scanner.  More protection, but then again another process taking memory and CPU.  :smileysurprised:

    My bad. I should have said that I use Thunderbird as my email client. While it's not a web browser, its internals appear to offer some of the features that Firefox does, if that makes any difference, and the content of the email, good or bad, is written locally.

    ****

    ZRL1 wrote:

    scanned, as they arrive, by the local AV engine in the same way as if, after the download is finished, I select the file and scan it with SophosAV?

    Sort-of-ish.  Because it's coming via a browser the SophosWebIntelligence hands off to the SophosScanD process.

    As long as some component of Sophos is scanning the file, that means I don't have to do it again, which is what I've been doing.:smileyhappy:
    :1015993
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