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Disable Sophos' Anti-Virus' memory resident in Mac OS X?

AntDude

Hello.


I just downloaded and installed savosx_he_r.zip, from www.sophos.com/.../sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition-legacy.aspx, into an updated Mac OS X v10.8.5 machine. I like it so far, but is there a way to disable its memory resident? I only want to use it for manually updating, scanning, and cleaning.

Thank you in advance. :)



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    No idea what you mean by "memory resident," but if you only want to use it as a post infection scanner (manual scanning), then simply hit the Stop Scanning button in Preferences, then set up a scan from Custom Scans.

  • 0 in reply to brvx

    Bascially, I don't want to run Sophos' AV software in the background all the time. I only want it loaded when I need like manual scanning and cleaning. Can I do that?

  • 0 in reply to AntDude

    Same answer I already gave.

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    brvx said:

    Same answer I already gave.

    OK, but how do I have its processes not loaded when not in used like after rebooting? I still see them according to an updated Mac OS X v10.8.5's Terminal:

    $ ps aux |grep sopho
    _sophos 134 0.0 9.3 2656412 194092 ?? Ss 11:49AM 0:08.36 SophosScanD
    _sophos 132 0.0 0.3 2468372 5548 ?? Ss 11:49AM 0:00.05 SophosWebIntelligence
    admin 226 0.0 0.0 2432768 588 s000 S+ 11:50AM 0:00.00 grep sopho

    I only want them to show up when running AV manually, and then they go away after quitting it.

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    brvx said:

    Same answer I already gave.

    OK, but how do I have its processes not loaded when not in used like after rebooting? I still see them according to an updated Mac OS X v10.8.5's Terminal:

    $ ps aux |grep sopho
    _sophos 134 0.0 9.3 2656412 194092 ?? Ss 11:49AM 0:08.36 SophosScanD
    _sophos 132 0.0 0.3 2468372 5548 ?? Ss 11:49AM 0:00.05 SophosWebIntelligence
    admin 226 0.0 0.0 2432768 588 s000 S+ 11:50AM 0:00.00 grep sopho

    I only want them to show up when running AV manually, and then they go away after quitting it.

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