Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups 133
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from the mysteriouser-enough-already dept.
from the mysteriouser-enough-already dept.
kdawson writes "Herewith the tale of the instantaneous loss of 19 months of Time Machine backup data, with the possible involvement of a fresh install of Sophos's new
free Mac A-V package. Sophos support has been contacted but has not responded as of this writing."
Loss of data, backups disabled without warning? (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a virus, you should install AV
SOME GUY LOST SOME FILES (Score:3, Funny)
Not sure why, film at 11.
Re:How does Sophos do this? (Score:5, Funny)
If so, wouldn't that introduce a HUGE performance penalty on the everything happening on the machine, since these system calls are so crucial?
Uh, it's anti-virus software: of course it introduces a huge performance penalty when accessing files. Otherwise, how would you know that it was doing anything?
Re:How does Sophos do this? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes.
Really, though, on a Mac, it should have a mode that makes it noop unless it's a Microsoft Office app running.
Re:My Time Capsule instantaneously loses... (Score:2, Funny)
Trash your preferences!
flash the P-ROM!
buy more RAM!
i can't help you! ...well, that's the usual order of responses i get from mac techies.