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Suddenly I need to Authenticate for every little Finder-Item scan ??

DmRofAtoZ

  I'm on a late 2009 imac, running Snow Leopard.
3 or 4 days ago I realized I hadn't updated Sophos in awhile, but encountered the "can't connect to server" problem . .  followed online suggestions and reinstalled, ending-up on Sophos:
Home Edition version 9.2.4

Threat detection engine: 3.58.1

Threat data: 5.15

 . . . ok, fine . .  nice !
After seeing that every blessed scan of a Finder Item like a jpeg grabbed online now required Authentication, I started to figure I'd missed something in Preferences.
"Alright . . . lemme use Keychain Access and see if I'd already registered at this here forum here" . . . 
But for the first time ever, my own Admin Password came back as invalid ?!?
What am I missing at what Root Level ?

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    Thanks, 

    I was indeed on my own admin account, as always. As I mentioned, the reinstall was also an upgrade to "Home Edition version 9.2.4", which saw me skipping ahead at least 2 versions.

    I'm on Snow Leopard ( which I like just fine ! )

    What else ?  . . .

    These scans are all items I drag from desktop to the app in the dock, like I've always done ! ( I do also have several "custom scans" which are run often, but that hasn't changed )

    On-access scanning is off . . . following a suggestion I read months ago about how it bogs down everything, and which sure made a difference in getting things running normally again.

    I see a whole bunch more Sophos processes running in Activity Monitor now, but the Sophos Server ( I believe ) is no longer one of `em.

    And on the last restart a few hpurs ago, Sophos is suddenly missing from the toolbar.

    Darn ! . .  I answer 2 of your questions . . .  then come up with 1/2 a dozen more !!

    sorry !!

    :smileyfrustrated:

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    Thanks, 

    I was indeed on my own admin account, as always. As I mentioned, the reinstall was also an upgrade to "Home Edition version 9.2.4", which saw me skipping ahead at least 2 versions.

    I'm on Snow Leopard ( which I like just fine ! )

    What else ?  . . .

    These scans are all items I drag from desktop to the app in the dock, like I've always done ! ( I do also have several "custom scans" which are run often, but that hasn't changed )

    On-access scanning is off . . . following a suggestion I read months ago about how it bogs down everything, and which sure made a difference in getting things running normally again.

    I see a whole bunch more Sophos processes running in Activity Monitor now, but the Sophos Server ( I believe ) is no longer one of `em.

    And on the last restart a few hpurs ago, Sophos is suddenly missing from the toolbar.

    Darn ! . .  I answer 2 of your questions . . .  then come up with 1/2 a dozen more !!

    sorry !!

    :smileyfrustrated:

    :1020981
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