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Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups

Posted by timothy on 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."

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  1. Loss of data, backups disabled without warning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like a virus, you should install AV

  2. Re:How does Sophos do this? by 0123456 · · Score: 4, 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?

  3. Re:How does Sophos do this? by bill_mcgonigle · · 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.

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