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On-access scanning disabled itself, will not allow me to turn it back on; on-demand scan not working

Hello and thank you in advance to anyone who can help me.  I have two issues:

(1) On-access scanning turned itself off and I am not able to turn it back on.  When I clicked on the button next to "the on-access scanner is off", it just says "Start scanning" and is greyed.

(2) When I try to do an on-demand scan, it scans for less than a second and stops.  Message says no threats but "issues detected".

Here is a log I came across if this helps:

Sophos Anti-Virus
Product version: 9.2.7
Copyright Copyright 1993-2012 Sophos Ltd. All rights reserved.

Scan name: "Scan Local Drives"
Scan items:
Configuration:
    Scan inside archives and compressed files: Yes
    Automatically clean up threats: Yes
    Action on infected files: Delete
    Live Protection enabled: Yes

Scan started at 2015-08-07 15:38:45 -0400

New volume detected at /
Unable to initialize threat detection engine: virus data missing or unusable.

Scan stopped at 2015-08-07 15:38:45 -0400.

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  • Hello suzanne,

    Can you tell me what files you have in the folder "/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/VDL"? I'm guessing its empty, but want to confirm.

    The product should eventually fix itself but you can prompt it by running this command from the Terminal:

    sudo /Library/Caches/com.sophos.sau/CID/Sophos\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer --install

    That should run the installer to "repair" the current installation.

    I'd really like to get a copy of the log file "/var/log/install.log" from your computer, to better understand where things might have gone wrong.

    :1021537

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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  • Hello suzanne,

    Can you tell me what files you have in the folder "/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/VDL"? I'm guessing its empty, but want to confirm.

    The product should eventually fix itself but you can prompt it by running this command from the Terminal:

    sudo /Library/Caches/com.sophos.sau/CID/Sophos\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer --install

    That should run the installer to "repair" the current installation.

    I'd really like to get a copy of the log file "/var/log/install.log" from your computer, to better understand where things might have gone wrong.

    :1021537

    ---

    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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