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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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    I was running SAV 8.0.9 (all recent updates) and then I upgraded my OS from Lion to Mountain Lion.  The first day or so was fine, and SAV appeared to download detection updates daily.  After a couple of days I could see that SAV was attempting to download a large version update, and I realized I had already downloaded the installer file (savosx_80_he.10.8+.dmg), so I quit the download process and ran the installer file I had.

    After install, I got a message that SAV was not completely installed, so I figured I needed to restart the computer.  On restart, the computer hung at login to my account (non-admin).  I tried restarting and logging into the admin account instead, but it hung on that also.  I restarted again without extensions, and ran the Remove Sophos, and everything was back to normal on restart.

    I then re-downloaded the SAV installer from the link "Download for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion" and opened the DMG file.  On looking at the disk image label, it appears to be "Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition OS X 10.5+".  Am I getting the correct installer file, and if so, should the install be compatible with OS X 10.8.2?

    MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 Core i7 quad-core 2.0GHz 8GB RAM

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    I was running SAV 8.0.9 (all recent updates) and then I upgraded my OS from Lion to Mountain Lion.  The first day or so was fine, and SAV appeared to download detection updates daily.  After a couple of days I could see that SAV was attempting to download a large version update, and I realized I had already downloaded the installer file (savosx_80_he.10.8+.dmg), so I quit the download process and ran the installer file I had.

    After install, I got a message that SAV was not completely installed, so I figured I needed to restart the computer.  On restart, the computer hung at login to my account (non-admin).  I tried restarting and logging into the admin account instead, but it hung on that also.  I restarted again without extensions, and ran the Remove Sophos, and everything was back to normal on restart.

    I then re-downloaded the SAV installer from the link "Download for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion" and opened the DMG file.  On looking at the disk image label, it appears to be "Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition OS X 10.5+".  Am I getting the correct installer file, and if so, should the install be compatible with OS X 10.8.2?

    MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 Core i7 quad-core 2.0GHz 8GB RAM

    :1011170
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