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Does Sophos Home real time scanning scan mail when opened with Mac mail.app?

593michael

I ask because the recent review in AV Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mac_review_2014_en.pdf) says that while several Mac AV programs (Intego, ESET, Avast!, etc.) do scan email, it does not list Sophos as providing "email protection."  See summary chart on p. 37 of the review.  I can't find any specific information about this one way or the other on the Sophos web site.  i went back and checked last year's review, and it also shows Sophos as not providing email protection. 

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    Hello 593michael,

    indeed Sophos does not provide email protection insofar as it does no special processing in conjunction with a specific app. The rationale is that any potentially harmful content is written to disk and read back at which point on-access scanning will kick in. Similarly one could wish for, say, PDF reader protection or word processor protection. Guess that email (still) receives special attention is to a large part owed to the fact that email was arguably the first "mobile" vector at a time when real-time scanning was not yet available but email clients already implemented click-to-open. Some AV products redirected your POP3 connection through the vendor's servers, later through a local proxy process.

    email protection often also means scanning for various kinds of spam and phishing. As said, attachments will be scanned, Web Protection covers threats eventually delivered by malicious URLs, though low-budget phishing (plain text, no links, "please reply to this email with your bank/email/website/... credentials") won't get caught.

    HTH

    Christian

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    Hello 593michael,

    indeed Sophos does not provide email protection insofar as it does no special processing in conjunction with a specific app. The rationale is that any potentially harmful content is written to disk and read back at which point on-access scanning will kick in. Similarly one could wish for, say, PDF reader protection or word processor protection. Guess that email (still) receives special attention is to a large part owed to the fact that email was arguably the first "mobile" vector at a time when real-time scanning was not yet available but email clients already implemented click-to-open. Some AV products redirected your POP3 connection through the vendor's servers, later through a local proxy process.

    email protection often also means scanning for various kinds of spam and phishing. As said, attachments will be scanned, Web Protection covers threats eventually delivered by malicious URLs, though low-budget phishing (plain text, no links, "please reply to this email with your bank/email/website/... credentials") won't get caught.

    HTH

    Christian

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