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My Boot Disk is Full......Yet Again!

Fotomann

I have just un-installed my Sophos AntiVirus for Mac as every time I run a full scan on my multi-drive MacBook this application fills my boot disk and locks the system, requiring it to be powered down by holding down the power switch. Thankfully my MacBook does lock up, thus preventing my data from being corrupted.

It's a shame that this otherwise excellent AV application is spoiled by a simple to fix bug such as this in the software. So I suppose it will be back to Kaspersky!

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    Hello Fotomann,

    a full scan is just that - a full scan. While it should be performed on a regular basis it is not the - if I may say so - pivotal feature. As long as a threat is packed in an archive it can't do anything. It has to be unpacked first and then accessed in order to execute and on-access scanning  will catch it at this point. So the contents of an archive are "ignored" but only as long as you don't unpack them (provided, of course, that you didn't turn off on-access scanning - which you shouldn't do). 

    You could perform an in-depth scan on incoming archives with a Finder scan if you want but with on-access active this is not really necessary.

    HTH

    Christian

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    Hello Fotomann,

    a full scan is just that - a full scan. While it should be performed on a regular basis it is not the - if I may say so - pivotal feature. As long as a threat is packed in an archive it can't do anything. It has to be unpacked first and then accessed in order to execute and on-access scanning  will catch it at this point. So the contents of an archive are "ignored" but only as long as you don't unpack them (provided, of course, that you didn't turn off on-access scanning - which you shouldn't do). 

    You could perform an in-depth scan on incoming archives with a Finder scan if you want but with on-access active this is not really necessary.

    HTH

    Christian

    :1002323
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