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

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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

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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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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

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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.