Wouldn't we need a virus for us to need an antivirus?
You say this is on an Apple yet we don't have any virus yet. Why would I install an antivirus today?
Bob
Hello, I am in the midst of a very serious issue, which already has lost me thousands of dollars due to Sophos AV. In short:
SOPHOS AV HAS BECOME IT'S OWN SORT OF VIRUS TO ME.
This is not a joke, and I'm not interested in arguing the point. I have already been down that road with Sophos company/tech support. I not only found them to be UNSYMPATHETIC, and UNCONCERNED, but a slip from the representative, showed me they know of this very serious issue, and are not in any hurry to fix it. it all started out simple enough.
I installed Sophos AV for ONLY THREE HOURS. I did not like user interface, so I uninstalled it with their uninstaller. I checked it, made sure it was purged, I made sure no traces were left. In a few days I think about five, my machine was progressively slowing down, finally to a non functional state. My finder was crashing, or freezing - Sound familiar? We stress about such things, and often never know the why of it. Then the spinning wheel, long periods of time, then just... non workable.
I ran EVERY diagnostic imaginable... the MAC disks, I went into the Single User Mode, Disk Warrior, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, directory tools, you name it. They said my drive was functioning normally. I was upset, as I make my living with my machine, and I have, as of today lost ten days of income, at a cost of a few thousand, with kids, and an empty bank account.
I kept booting into single user mode, on one particular boot, I happened to catch an error of sorts and I saw the name 'SOPHOS Anti Virus.' I opened a terminal window, and pulled up my firewall logs - - - you will not believe this..
Sophos had, in a manner of speaking taken over my machine. When I checked my system logs, I was astounded to find Sophos making querys into my machine EVERY TEN SECONDS at tree per second.
My system resources were being bled away from functional work! That was all that was wrong. Sophos has in effect, become a virus in itself. But worse, because it is from the Sophos server.
I counted in one and a half hours, over 4500, yes, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, QUERYS. My diagnostics were correct. Nothing was wrong with my machine, except for Sophos.
The standard searches I did, did not show any more Sophos files in the machine. So I got Onyx, and toggled 'show hidden files.' Then I went to 'Mac Help Mate,' and did a search, and WOW, I found about thirty or more files, and many were over 1 mg. So, I manually cleared the machine, and put the files into a data shredder. I checked, and rechecked. My machine was immediately back to speed, and humming along nicely. But...I just checked. It's been two hours since I purged my machine, now the messages are coming in at 6 to 10 or more, EVERY TEN SECONDS.
I am exhausted, out of money, and looking at a very difficult outcome. I do not know what to do. Sophos, does NOT care. When I told them I was losing my business, they told me to go online for 'free' tech support. I told them I did NOT want tech support, I wanted their program off my unit. I kept getting directed to online support.
Read they forums. They are NOT about support in truth. They are about propagating their own agenda. IF, they were actually concerned, when I told them their servers were not letting go, and I can't work, it made no difference. They told me to go online and see what I can find out.
I think if only one person had this problem, they shoud be at least interested what is up. I do not think I am an isolated case. Most regular users, i.e. students, kids, household types, are not aware of single user, or terminal. I just almost accidently fell on to the root of my problem. If anyone can help, Please, I need it. But, at this point, I'm about out of money.
It would not suprise me, if Sophos wrote malware to create their on market. Create it, be the one to 'cure' it. Then you be the hero. On my word, their tech guys were not suprised. As I was reading my syslogs to them, I heard him quoting the message as I was reading. Oops...

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