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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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    Mervich wrote:

    Late this morning, Aug 10, the problem of the disappearing Sophos icon appears to have been corrected through a update/download. The update went normally...the Sophos icon disappeared for a moment and then reappeared. Following another update in the 1:00 PM (CDT) hour, the behaviour was again normal with the icon reappearing upon completion. Thanks Sophos!

    Found the same thing with my Mountain Lion installation; the Sophos icon does seem to have settled down.

    However, when I switched back to my primary boot partition (Lion), there were two Sophos icons on the menu bar. Each icon was able to put up its own "About Sophos Anti-Virus" window when that menu item was chosen. Choosing not to show status in the menu bar only eliminated one of them; choosing to show it again put the second icon back. Then, after an automatic update, in which both icons showed the moving arrow, one icon disappeared and we're back to normal again, at least for now. Notably, while the icon is there, the updater doesn't show in Login Items as it used to. Curiouser and curiouser.

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    Mervich wrote:

    Late this morning, Aug 10, the problem of the disappearing Sophos icon appears to have been corrected through a update/download. The update went normally...the Sophos icon disappeared for a moment and then reappeared. Following another update in the 1:00 PM (CDT) hour, the behaviour was again normal with the icon reappearing upon completion. Thanks Sophos!

    Found the same thing with my Mountain Lion installation; the Sophos icon does seem to have settled down.

    However, when I switched back to my primary boot partition (Lion), there were two Sophos icons on the menu bar. Each icon was able to put up its own "About Sophos Anti-Virus" window when that menu item was chosen. Choosing not to show status in the menu bar only eliminated one of them; choosing to show it again put the second icon back. Then, after an automatic update, in which both icons showed the moving arrow, one icon disappeared and we're back to normal again, at least for now. Notably, while the icon is there, the updater doesn't show in Login Items as it used to. Curiouser and curiouser.

    :1009078
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