On 11/3/10 11:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yersinia wrote:
OK, thanks for the heads-up about a first time virus scan being like
Spotlight/taking forever. Maybe I will try Sophos after all. But...
what IS "Access scanning" and what do you mean by "files are only
ever scanned if the system touches thsm"? By "the system" do you
mean OS X?
on access scanning means that when files are read (for the first time
in a session) or written they're scanned. It's sort of like spotlight
which only indexes when files are changed.
Both programs insert themselves into the OS so that when files are
read or written; they scan the file before the OS can do anything.
Oh wow, OK! But that sounds a lot like lysogeny to me! LOL! ( is there a
microbiologist in the house? ;-) )
If this sounds a lot like what malware would do, you're right. Some
years back a Sophos update decided that a bunch of Microsoft
application support files were viruses. A LOT of folks suddenly ended
up with fubared Office installs, and a lot of IT folks cursed Sophos
that day.
ROFLMAO! ...uh-HUH, definitely seeing this lysogenic virus incorporating
its genome into the genome of the host cell so that ITS proteins will
code instead of those of the host cell's....
...and yeah, I know I shouldn't be laughing on account of all the
trouble and aggravation those poor IT folks had to deal with on account
of it, but just the IDEA that any version of a Mac AV application would
have decided that ANYTHING MicroBorg on the systems were viruses just
tickles my funnybone! . . .
Anyway, I ran Sophos on my Quicksilver last night and no threats were
found -- at least not on the big 60 GB HDD. There's also a 30 GB HDD in
this machine, and I was just trying to figure out how to tell if THAT
drive was checked too (the "help" isn't really all that great, but
Google is my friend and they do have a forum I noticed). Once I'm sure
of that, think I'll also run it on the Mini and iBook since they aren't
Internet virgins either -- the iBook in particular but on rare
occasions, I actually have taken the Mini online.
Thanks for the help, and the laugh.
~Yersinia.
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