Thanks for the reviews page AEP, I'll bookmark for a reference.

Cheers.

Solved the Virus fiasco. LINKY

Thanks for your help, Ian.

I respect Ians valuable advice but I 1: have heard of Sophos in the past, so I am going to run the two of them (ClamXav&Sophos) - I have a backup just in case, but I do not think that there will be any problems.
I DO like to experiment with my favourite MBP.
It's how we all learn, and it doesn't cost a penny.

I'll be letting everyone know how it goes, good or bad.

Thank you to the OP for the info & link, and thanks to everyone else for your valuable, trusted opinions.

I'm running the two just now - it's a no brainer for me.

Unless you have any substantiation for your unwarranted slur against the OP I think you should withdraw it

Try to learn the difference between a slur and a question.

I am perfectly aware of who Sophos are: ever since I switched to OSX 6 years ago they have invariably been the source of all "HUGE NEW THREAT TO THE MAC PLATFORM - OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR ALL GOING TO DIE" stories.

They have cried wolf far, far too often.

You might want to find a more up to date review site than about.com (seriously?) since much of the info you link to is out of date or tendentious.

Edited by ian_c (Tue 07-Dec-10 10:31:31)

In reply to a post by ian_c:

Unless you have any substantiation for your unwarranted slur against the OP I think you should withdraw it

Try to learn the difference between a slur and a question.

I am perfectly aware of who Sophos are: ever since I switched to OSX 6 years ago they have invariably been the source of all "HUGE NEW THREAT TO THE MAC PLATFORM - OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR ALL GOING TO DIE" stories.

They have cried wolf far, far too often.

You might want to find a more up to date review site than about.com (seriously?) since much of the info you link to is out of date or tendentious.

And that explanation makes more sense to me.

My Brother had emailed me today that my email had a virus [again] - I had scanned and deleted the eicar test objects, and forgot about the quarantine folder that I'd set up.
RV
Sophos NEVER alerted me during the scan today. There's a reason for that though, the scan takes AGES!!

ClamXav scans much faster, ergo, more usefull. I would rather do a quick scan on the MBP than wait FOREVER. It STILL hasn't completed.

Thanks yet again Ian.

I'll be letting everyone know how it goes, good or bad

Good for you.

Have a look at This clicky
The "Pre-install setup" paragraph

I did ask if the comment about running 2 at once was valid, a few days ago, when Goldenoldie was seeking advice on this AV package.

Perhaps you'll be able to tell us when you've researched it yourself

In reply to a post by Guest_Again:

There's a reason for that though, the scan takes AGES!!

Took about two and half hours for around a million and a quarter files here... about half the time that ClamXAV takes.

It picked up a couple of Windows trojans on email attachments, as did ClamXAV, it didn't report a couple of emails that ClamXAV reckoned were phishing... as they were obviously spam they went straight into the junk folder on arrival so I don't know which is right!

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Guest_Again:

There's a reason for that though, the scan takes AGES!!

Took about two and half hours for around a million and a quarter files here... about half the time that ClamXAV takes.

It picked up a couple of Windows trojans on email attachments, as did ClamXAV, it didn't report a couple of emails that ClamXAV reckoned were phishing... as they were obviously spam they went straight into the junk folder on arrival so I don't know which is right!

The thing is, ClamXav picked up the eicar testers well before Sophos did. It may have been because of where I'd stored them to test (and forget).

I'm just a bit annoyed. Grateful too I suppose. Going by your post, it's hard to say no to either/or tbh.

It's generally not considred a good idea to run two antivirus programs at the same time. Performance of one, or both, and general performance is likely to suffer.