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Sophos for Mac md5 checksums missing from Sophos website!

Tezcatlipoca

The FAQ page for Sophos for Mac ( http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition/faqs.aspx ) has a link for the md5 checksum for the OS X 10.4 - 10.7 version, here:

http://downloads.sophos.com/home-edition/savosx_he.md5

There also used to be a checksum available for the OS X 10.8 version, by changing the name at the end of the URL to match the name of the OS X 10.8 version of the installer image.

Neither of these pages seem to exist anymore, though.

All you get now is "File not found."

Why have the checksums been removed?

Also, why is there no direct link for the OS X 10.8 checksum anyway?

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    Thanks. That doesn't solve the issue, though.

    As I mentioned in my original post, and as matsu mentioned today, you did actually used to be able to view the MD5 checksum for the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version of Sophos by manually changing the URL for the <10.8 version's MD5 checksum... yet this broke when the linked checksum for <10.8 was removed, and hasn't been put back.

    I understand that work is underway on the website, but it doesn't take very long to simply upload a page with the 10.8+ checksum on it and then edit the other page to add a link.

    Why not add it now, instead of making people wait however long the website's overhaul is going to take?

    Mountain Lion's share is growing and growing (e.g. http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/04/os-x-108-mountain-lion-overtakes-107-lion-internet-share-for-first-time ), so why not provide Mountain Lion users with the ability to double-check the intergrity of the Mountain Lion download of Sophos? 

    Also, do you know why the <10.8 MD5 checksum vanished originally? Why did the link break?

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    Thanks. That doesn't solve the issue, though.

    As I mentioned in my original post, and as matsu mentioned today, you did actually used to be able to view the MD5 checksum for the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version of Sophos by manually changing the URL for the <10.8 version's MD5 checksum... yet this broke when the linked checksum for <10.8 was removed, and hasn't been put back.

    I understand that work is underway on the website, but it doesn't take very long to simply upload a page with the 10.8+ checksum on it and then edit the other page to add a link.

    Why not add it now, instead of making people wait however long the website's overhaul is going to take?

    Mountain Lion's share is growing and growing (e.g. http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/04/os-x-108-mountain-lion-overtakes-107-lion-internet-share-for-first-time ), so why not provide Mountain Lion users with the ability to double-check the intergrity of the Mountain Lion download of Sophos? 

    Also, do you know why the <10.8 MD5 checksum vanished originally? Why did the link break?

    :1011346
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