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Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: on-demand scan from the graphical user interface does not scan 'Infected' folder

With Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, in order to avoid repeated alerts on known infected files, items inside the 'Infected' folder are not scanned by an on-demand scan with the graphical user interface.

If an attempt is made to run an infected file in this folder, the on-access scanner will prevent access.

This functionality will be changed in a future release of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X.

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