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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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    mommo1982 wrote:

    you must delete the login who you see, and then the second icon disappears.

    See my previous post. There is no login item. Yet two shields appear upon startup. Then, once it updates, one of them disappears, probably because the menu item process quits itself and only reboots once.

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    "i went to go in the System Preferences, Users & Groups, Login Items. I have deleted ONE ACCOUNT SOPHOS and the second icon has disappeared. With Mountain Lion"

    I did the same thing and now I only have one Sophos icon in my menu bar too. 

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    dportela wrote:
    mommo1982 wrote:

    you must delete the login who you see, and then the second icon disappears.

    See my previous post. There is no login item. Yet two shields appear upon startup. Then, once it updates, one of them disappears, probably because the menu item process quits itself and only reboots once.

    Some posters have reported this problem with Clone backup drives attached. If you have one also, the problem was solved by unattaching the clone drive, restarting, and then reattaching.

    Hope this is of help

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    I also did the same thing as Stevamundo and there is one icon.

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    And now just restarted and there's only one shield. Don't know if there was a stealth update that solved this, but it seems to be working properly now.

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    Since installing Mountain Lion I have encountered two problems:

    1. Launching the application RubyMine causes InterCheck to spike to 100% utilisation of one core. The RubyMine  icon bounces in the dock and nothing happens. I must disable on-demand scanning for the application to launch. Once the app is launched, I enable on-demand scanning and encounter no more problems.

    2. Copying the application from one folder to another on the same disk (SSD) slows the Finder copy to around 250KB/sec.

    Please fix.

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    According to the dev team response in a different thread, it's coming out as a standard monthly update in September.

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    On Mountain Lion 10.8 it worked once, at restart it didn't load the on-access protection anymore and there was no way to restore it... button was greyed out, no way to do anything, clicking the reset button displayed a message that it couldn't reset the module I wanted to reset, LOL!

    I uninstalled it completely...

    I don't know, maybe version 8.0.7 will fix this thing?

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    Notyetgood wrote:

    On Mountain Lion 10.8 it worked once, at restart it didn't load the on-access protection anymore and there was no way to restore it... button was greyed out, no way to do anything, clicking the reset button displayed a message that it couldn't reset the module I wanted to reset, LOL!

    I uninstalled it completely...

    I don't know, maybe version 8.0.7 will fix this thing?

    If you're having that sort of issue, a product update probably won't fix it -- you've likely got a corrupted plist file, badly-set file permissions, or some other
    local issue involved, unless you can identify your problem as something that has been documented and is being fixed.  Were their any notable errors in Console.app that could pinpoint what was causing the scanner to load?

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