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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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    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.

    :1013010
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