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Why do we need to be logged-in as an Admin to Scan Local Drives?

FrMFX

Since Sophos Anti-Virus is presumably installed and run as a privileged  process why is it necessary to be logged in as an Admin user in order to run the 'Scan Local Drives' scan?

At the very least couldn't it just prompt to authenticate with admin credentials instead of requiring to be actually logged in as an admin??

SAV 8.0.11C

MacOS X 10.6.8

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    I have an additional question with this. I have set Sphos for Mac to open at log in, however, it then jumps up on the screen and I have to close it as it normally just sits in the dock. Then I eventually get a message onscreen saying that it is not operating. There are no instructions or settings information so how are you supposed to use tt? I thought that it just ran silently in the background. It is permanently on the dock by the way.

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    FrMFX wrote:

    Since Sophos Anti-Virus is presumably installed and run as a privileged  process why is it necessary to be logged in as an Admin user in order to run the 'Scan Local Drives' scan?

    At the very least couldn't it just prompt to authenticate with admin credentials instead of requiring to be actually logged in as an admin??

    SAV 8.0.11C

    MacOS X 10.6.8

    You don't have to be an admin.  There is a video for setting up a custom scan of sophos.com here.  It doesn't mention logging in is a special user, nor unlocking a panel, nor sudo-ing to a power account.

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    Hughmoz wrote:

    I have an additional question with this. I have set Sphos for Mac to open at log in, however, it then jumps up on the screen and I have to close it as it normally just sits in the dock. Then I eventually get a message onscreen saying that it is not operating. There are no instructions or settings information so how are you supposed to use tt? I thought that it just ran silently in the background. It is permanently on the dock by the way.

    You mean in System Preferences > System > Users and Groups > 'Login items' for you account.... you have added SAV?  If so it's not required - remove it.

    SAV starts with the computer automatically and sits in the menubar (if you have shield > preferences > messaging tab > show status in menubar checked). From the shield if you click 'open' then it...opens and you can scan your computer on-demand (and SAV then appears in the dock).

    If you don't run an on-demand scan that's no problem as the on-access scanning is running in the background all the time checking files that are being opened.

    Hughmoz wrote:

    Then I eventually get a message onscreen saying that it is not operating.

    This sounds like you have an actual problem with your install.  Wait for it to happen again and post a new thread (don't hijack this one) and post and screenshot so it's clear what the problem is.

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