#SOPHOS MAC ANTIVIRUS SCREENSHOTS MAC OS X#

Rich Baldry from Sophos says: 'This ensures that only authenticated users of the computer can perform these actions, which potentially involve removing or modifying areas of the system to which they wouldn't usually have access.'

#SOPHOS MAC ANTIVIRUS SCREENSHOTS MAC OS X#

Note that if you want Sophos to remove malware, Mac OS X will ask for your password where a Windows PC would probably let you hit Continue. This is not a bad thing, because you might unwittingly send malware to friends who have Windows machines.

Sophos is a well known and highly regarded supplier of anti-virus programs for Windows, and tends to deal with the Windows stuff as well. At the maximum, an anti-virus program could also identify and clean up any Windows malware that it finds (which might be in the web cache or attached to emails, for example), and also any tracking cookies that could compromise your privacy. At the minimum, a Mac anti-virus program should identify any viruses that might be a threat to Mac OS X. There's often some discussion as to what constitutes a threat, and whether an anti-virus program should deal with it, and this is particularly true on the Mac. I wonder if it was a more effective anti-virus, or are they trying to sign me up for something? The first two found nothing, but the last one, Sophos, found eight 'threats', which appear to be spyware.

Just for interest, I downloaded three different anti-virus programs.

Sophos mac antivirus screenshots