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Sophos Scans VMs ?
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11-20-2011 03:29 PM - last edited on 11-20-2011 03:38 PM
Namastee
I install Parallels Desktop 7 on Mac OS X Lion and have an Windows XP Pro SP3 on it!
Sophos scans any files on VMs with On-Access scanning, or only shared folders between Mac OS X and Windows?
Also, I need to install Sophos Windows based app for VMs!?
Now I have only Sophos Anti-Rootkit (Freeware) for On-demand scanning.
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Re: Sophos Scans VMs ?
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11-21-2011 04:59 PM
Because Parallels stores its files on the host Mac filesystem, SAV for Mac does indeed scan the contents of a Parallels XP guest. Any partition that is readable by the host OS will be scanned. Any that are in a proprietary format will likely be ignored.
Running two AV products on the same files at the same time is generally a bad idea -- so if you have Parallels set up to store all files on the Mac host, then you should either exclude that directory from on-access scans, or use SAV for Mac as your AV scanner, and a void running something else in Windows. You should still have a decent firewall system in place as well, however (and you can run other AV scanners in non-on-access mode).
Andrew
