Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

[virus12321]

At the moment, to disable on-access scanning takes a very long time - open preferences in Sophos, type in password, disable.

Can you guys make it so that you just press a button in the drop down menu of the Menubar icon?

I am used to ClamXav Sentry having a convenient "Stop Watching" entry.

[grahamperrin]

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virus12321 wrote:

Menubar icon

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+1

A menu option to disable on-access scanning would be appreciated. 

I understand that admin credentials may be required for options such as this. Ideally: 

• require authentication to disable on-access scanning
• allow any user without authentication to enable on-access scanning.

[osxtasy]

+1

This is deperately needed, in addition to SAV being modified to automatically SUSPEND real-time funtions during permissions repair or time machine operations, which *may* be linked to people having issues with lockups/freezing(unresponsive systems) as described in other threads....