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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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    Alas that time has come....

    After trialling Sophos for some time now I have been forced to uninstall this product. A week ago my desktops all went grey. All my desktop images  dissappeared even after reboot they would not return. I saw the other fellows response about his problems and thought maybe it was Sohphos. So I unstalled the product yesterday rebooted and my desktop images returned.

    Seems like you have some work remaining to reach the reliability that is required. If you confirm the issue and know its fixed then let me know and I may try again. Other than this issue it appeared to work ok but I will know more over the coming days. It did detect quite a few viruses in the time I had it on my mac book pro retina. Mostly windows viruses coming in through USB keys and the occasional download so it was quite effective in that regard. 

    It is possible the interaction with new screen savers may be an issue, I just dont know. The issue did not present itself when they were installed only some time later. I installed Desktop Aquarium application and I run the HAL9000 (Console Editon) screen saver.

    Sincerely yours

    :1012196
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  • 0

    Alas that time has come....

    After trialling Sophos for some time now I have been forced to uninstall this product. A week ago my desktops all went grey. All my desktop images  dissappeared even after reboot they would not return. I saw the other fellows response about his problems and thought maybe it was Sohphos. So I unstalled the product yesterday rebooted and my desktop images returned.

    Seems like you have some work remaining to reach the reliability that is required. If you confirm the issue and know its fixed then let me know and I may try again. Other than this issue it appeared to work ok but I will know more over the coming days. It did detect quite a few viruses in the time I had it on my mac book pro retina. Mostly windows viruses coming in through USB keys and the occasional download so it was quite effective in that regard. 

    It is possible the interaction with new screen savers may be an issue, I just dont know. The issue did not present itself when they were installed only some time later. I installed Desktop Aquarium application and I run the HAL9000 (Console Editon) screen saver.

    Sincerely yours

    :1012196
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