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Sophos Scans VMs ?

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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 ?

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).

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