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Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X


From: Chris Green <cmgreen () UAB EDU>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:33:30 -0500

Be aware that FileVault + Sophos's real time scanner have had some
recurring issues that can affect deployments with deadlock at login.
Current revisions of OS X + Sophos resolve it but we've had this
symptom occur twice at various patch levels.

We're migrating away from FileVault where possible.

On May 4, 2009, at 1:54 PM, King, Ronald A. wrote:

We also use Sophos for Windows and MAC.  They also have a Linux
client.  We
have successfully installed and continue to update it on the tree
desktop
OSes. However, we haven't done any extended testing on OSX or Linux
based
machines.


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