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Sophos Antivirus for Mac and OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion"

RichBaldry

Earlier today, Apple announced that a new version of OS X, codenamed Mountain Lion, would be released in July 2012.

Sophos has been actively participating in the pre-release developer programs for this new OS version. While the product works well on the new platform, we have found that there are a few changes required to support Mountain Lion fully. These changes will be implemented in the July monthly release of Sophos Antivirus for Mac, which will be v8.0.5.

We fully expect this new version to be available in time for the release of Mountain Lion.

The most significant change is that the installer for the product will be signed by Apple. This will ensure compliance with the new Gatekeeper functionality, which requires that the digital signature for any software downloaded from the Internet is based on a certificate from Apple..

Unfortunately this process is not compatible with version 10.4 of OS X. Starting with v8.0.5 of Sophos Antivirus for Mac Home Edition it will only be possible to perform a new installation on OS X 10.5 and above. Customers currently running our product on 10.4 will continue to receive updates and upgrades as usual via the AutoUpdate process.

This will not affect automated updates to existing installations.

There are no plans to make v7.x of Sophos Antivirus for Mac compatible with Mountain Lion. Home Edition users currently running v7.x will be automatically upgraded to v8.x during the month of July.

Thanks for using Sophos Antivirus for Mac Home Edition!

Richard Baldry

Product Manager

P.S. Please watch this space for further announcements as the launch of Mountain Lion gets closer...

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    Gatekeeper won't be an issue, as Gatekeeper only quarantines files downloaded with an applicatoin that sets the quarantine flag -- the Sophos auto-update service does not set that flag, so anything it downloads will not be quarantined, and will not be subject to Gatekeeper's access controls.  As a word of caution, this also means anything downloaded by, say, peer-to-peer software will not be subject to Gatekeeper's access controls, nor will software copied off of attached storage

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    Mervich wrote:

    Just a thought...an idea to try to resolve this issue. Could it be the Gatekeeper app that is causing this to happen? The app is System Preferences/Security & Privacy/General tab..."Allow applications downloaded from..." Am going to try "Anywhere" and see what happens.

    I turned Gatekeeper off shortly after I installed Mountain Lion and have left it off ever since. The problem of the disappearing icon continued nonetheless. I suspect the updater has been installing newer versions of whatever version was already present, i.e., Lion or lower if that's what was already there. It's kind of a Catch-22 in that the conversion from v7 to v8 took place while most users didn't yet have Mountain Lion installed, and if the updater doesn't detect a change in the operating system or isn't designed to do anything about it, the Lion version will continue to be delivered even when ML is installed.


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    Gatekeeper won't be an issue, as Gatekeeper only quarantines files downloaded with an applicatoin that sets the quarantine flag -- the Sophos auto-update service does not set that flag, so anything it downloads will not be quarantined, and will not be subject to Gatekeeper's access controls.  As a word of caution, this also means anything downloaded by, say, peer-to-peer software will not be subject to Gatekeeper's access controls, nor will software copied off of attached storage

    ZRL1 wrote:
    Mervich wrote:

    Just a thought...an idea to try to resolve this issue. Could it be the Gatekeeper app that is causing this to happen? The app is System Preferences/Security & Privacy/General tab..."Allow applications downloaded from..." Am going to try "Anywhere" and see what happens.

    I turned Gatekeeper off shortly after I installed Mountain Lion and have left it off ever since. The problem of the disappearing icon continued nonetheless. I suspect the updater has been installing newer versions of whatever version was already present, i.e., Lion or lower if that's what was already there. It's kind of a Catch-22 in that the conversion from v7 to v8 took place while most users didn't yet have Mountain Lion installed, and if the updater doesn't detect a change in the operating system or isn't designed to do anything about it, the Lion version will continue to be delivered even when ML is installed.


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