Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

[carlos]

Hello everybody,

Sopport Sophos: 

- Safari

- Firefox

- Omniweb

EICAR will detect by Safari + Sophos

Test it with Firefox Sophos detect not the EICAR File

Will Omniweb supported ?

You welcome

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Sorry for the badly englisch 

[grahamperrin]

Your English is welcome, perfection is not necessary :-)

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: 

• does scan files on disk
• does not scan network traffic to the browser. 

A separate product/service Sophos Live URL Filtering may be interesting, but I guess that this is not available for Mac OS X.

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Sophos products/services aside: 

• Web of Trust (WOT) supports Safari and Firefox, with bookmarklet support for OmniWeb and other browsers.

If you can bear a topic that is rambling, sometimes technical: 

• Complements to Safari 'fraudulent sites' warnings and Google Safe Browsing

There is also http://www.wilderssecurity.com/

I hope that helps. 

Graham

[carlos]

Thank You grahamperrin 

sorry for the late answer. I understand all and wish you all the best.

Greets carlos

[carlos]

Hi,

Sophos find Eicar - Files.

The zip - Files will not detect on Firefox.

Safari is full supported.

Many Thanks Sophos

[Agile]

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carlos wrote:

Hi,

Sophos find Eicar - Files.

The zip - Files will not detect on Firefox.

Safari is full supported.

Many Thanks Sophos

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MacHomeAV doesn't detect at the browser level; it detects at the On File Access level.  Because of the way Safari and Firefox cache and save their files, files downloaded/viewed by Safari will be detected immediately, whereas via Firefox you would have to explicitly access them or do an on demand scan of the location the file was cached/saved to.

Needless to say, the file will be detected before it can "cause harm" (load, in eicar's case) no matter how it was imported to the filesystem.