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Feb 13, 2016 8:47 PM in response to ***In2Ndo***by BobHarris,99% of the problem with Mac anti-virus is that if you hang around these forums long enough, you see time and time again that anti-virus packages are at the root of many users problems, and it does not matter which A/V vendor, they have all been the root of a problem (performance issue, kernel panics, blocking access to valid sites, etc...).
The A/V vendors write the packages for Windows, and then hack and slash their products into the Mac without truly understanding OS X, often times using undocumented APIs, or worse just reaching into the kernel without using appropriate kernel locking to access data structures, and then one day the the timing is just right, and boom, the user's Mac panics. Or the OS X kernel release changes, and what they are doing interferes with OS X normal operations slowing down OS X to terrible speeds.
If you want to run A/V solftware, then keep this in mind, especially every time you update/upgrade to a new OS X release, because that is when kernel changes happen, and the A/V packages get caught doing undocumented things in the kernel. Especially in later releases such as Yosemite and El Capitan.
As to getting Sophos warning message over and over again. Maybe you you should consider how helpful the Sophos forum was and use that as in indicator on how well this product is being supported on OS X. Or, since I do now know much about their forum, it is possible it too is only users that contribute there, and then that would say there are not a lot of Mac users participating. If that is the case, maybe you should be contacting Sophos support directly.
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Feb 13, 2016 8:51 PM in response to Allan Eckertby ***In2Ndo***,Yes I did… it just says same things I have been saying..
but If you really want to help.. You could go back to my original post and help me get rid of the thing.. . .not that is doing anything to my system or anything.. because the AV is catching it… but it bugs me.. I like her running clean…
Now.. if you just don't know how to do it.. you could say that. .. and we could be done with the unproductive conversation.
Thank you.
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Feb 13, 2016 8:59 PM in response to ***In2Ndo***by Allan Eckert,You have already been told the solution to getting rid of your problem already which is to uninstall Sophos.
I question your reading of that article. That is not what I got from reading it.
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Feb 13, 2016 9:09 PM in response to BobHarrisby ***In2Ndo***,Thanks for the reply BobHarris, I did contact Sophos support directly.. they pointed me to the community since my ver. is a free ver. their current paid ver. doesn't support my OS ver 10.7.5 .. and when I posted my question I wasn't to optimistic about it .. because I know is not used much.
I learned all that I know primarily windows and now MAC through support groups.. mainly underground RIC groups.. and those people will stick with you until your issue is taken care of. .. but its been a while.. and don't have the patience or time to deal with RIC now days..and was hopping to get the help here..
but I guess I'll better find a good newsgroup program again and get back in the game.. its seems all there is out here is AOL users…
The problem should not be the OS.. the problems should be how to solve it. … even if it means hacking the OS.
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