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For some reason early this afternoon, I started to get "request to connect" message boxes appearing every time I went to a new web page, from Sophos. Not just one, three to five, every time. And it wasn'[t doing that in the morning. One site I got 21 of those before they stopped. I went to Sophos but couldn't find anything in their "community." Maybe i wasn't using the right keyword.
I couldn't live with it the way it was so I removed it form my computer.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I'll try to reinstall it tomorrow and see if i get the same problem. I've had this on my computer for a couple years without any problem.
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Not to me but I dumped them on Tuesday for a different reason.
I did a full scan of my drives and when the scan got to a ~50GB .dmg file, the scan "stalled" there, probably just searching through the large amount of data in the file, and then proceeded to completely fill up my boot SSD with 188GB of some sort of temporary files so there was 0MB free on it.
I killed the process and it gave back the 188GB but did it again in about 20 minutes. Restart the Mac and it did it a 3rd time. Uninstalled Sophos and I have my 188GB back for good now. Of course I just loved it filling up my SSD 3x in a day when it had never been more than 1/3 full before then.
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I cant believe anyone would actually give them money, unless you had a windows box.
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I certainly didn't give them any money, their AV is free.
And worth every penny!
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Sophos and Avast are no longer good AV products.
Sophos grabs too much in the way of system resources and Avast now pollutes your drive with garbageware.
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Lew Zealand wrote:
I certainly didn't give them any money, their AV is free.
And worth every penny!
meh, I think you paid too much. =)
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Hmm. Maybe i won't bother trying to reinstall it tomorrow.
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Sophos kept interfering with my nightly SuperDuper! clone on my iMac, so I removed it. It still runs on my MBP, giving me little notices that it found stuff, which I close. All it ever finds are Windows trojans and such.
I originally installed Sophos because of reports of Mac OS exploits being dire threats. Are there really any? And if so, is there a good (free) Mac AV these days? If there were real threats, I'd pay for AV (I do on my Windoze machines—or did, anyway; my Trend Micro license expired recently).
/Mr Lynn
