Sophos Anti-Virus is preconfigured with the recommended settings for protection. Click on “Open Preferences.” NOTE: If the Sophos shield isn’t shown in the menu bar, then you must access Sophos through the “Applications” folder located in the “Finder” by double-clicking the icon. Click on the Sophos shield in the menu bar. To set Sophos up to automatically remove viruses with on-access scanning: 1.
By default, on-access detects, but doesn’t delete viruses. This means the program will check each file you access to ensure it is not infected. Index 1) 2) Configure On-Access Scanning to Remove Viruses Sophos is pre-configured for on-access scanning. This document gives step-by-step instructions for configuring on-access scanning to cleanup viruses as well as running a full system scan with recommended settings.
Scheduled scans can’t be configured from the Sophos application, so scans must be run manually. Even though on- access scanning is enabled and will detect viruses, it won’t automatically remove them. NAU Information Technology Services January, 2011 How to Configure Sophos Anti-Virus for Home Systems How to Configure Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X When you download and install Sophos on your home computer, on-access scanning is enabled.
