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UPGRADE to version 9.0 of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac HE

bobcook

Hi everyone,

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac version 9.0 Home Edition is available: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

The headline feature for version 9.0 is Web Protection, offering protection to make web browsing safe. This is the same technology used by our corporate customers, learn more from our website: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/why-sophos/innovative-technology/web-protection.aspx

We've also worked hard to improve the existing features with a number of security and stability fixes. Version 9.0 supports Mac OS X 10.6 and up. This means we've discontinued support for all PowerPC systems and 10.4/10.5 Intel systems going forward.

You can upgrade an existing version 8 installation, or set up a brand new installation with the same installer. Either way, just download and run the installer app. Today you need to "opt-in" by manually running the installer to upgrade yourself, but later this year we'll migrate all version 8 installations automatically.

If you find problems, please post about it here. If you don't have any problems we'd also love to hear that too. If you find a showstopper issue, please let us know and then reinstall version 8 until we can fix it (the installer for version 8 is also still available from our website).

Regarding the Web Protection feature, you can test the two different types of protection with these two links:

URL reputation blocking: http://www.sophostest.com/ then click the "Malware" link about half-way down the page

Malicious content blocking: http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar_com.zip

In both cases, you will get a notification page instead of the real content when the protection features are enabled in the preferences.

Thanks for using our product, keep sending feedback.

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    Hi Bob,

    Re version 9: it goes well. No problems or issues to report at all. I've so far used it to do a full scan on my MacBookPro and on a MacMini, in both cases finding no threats.

    Whilst using Safari on the MacMini, accessing a rogue website - viooz.co - Sophos immediately detected that it was a bad site and blocked all attempts to access it. Oddly, though, we had previously used that site - to watch the end of a film that our recorder chopped off! - and it didn't seem that it caused any issues, when I subsequently installed Sophos and did the full scan. Maybe it all depends on which links on that site one actually clicks on?

    Incidentally, if one encounters a blocked site, is there any way to override the block and access it anyway (however inadvisable that might be)? I couldn't see any way to do that.

    Nigel

    PS I also posted a question and a couple of suggestions for enhancements, a couple of weeks ago, at:

    http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/Scan-Local-Drives-filenames-only-show-intermittently/m-p/13236/thread-id/6238

    but I didn't get any reply as yet?

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    Hi Bob,

    Re version 9: it goes well. No problems or issues to report at all. I've so far used it to do a full scan on my MacBookPro and on a MacMini, in both cases finding no threats.

    Whilst using Safari on the MacMini, accessing a rogue website - viooz.co - Sophos immediately detected that it was a bad site and blocked all attempts to access it. Oddly, though, we had previously used that site - to watch the end of a film that our recorder chopped off! - and it didn't seem that it caused any issues, when I subsequently installed Sophos and did the full scan. Maybe it all depends on which links on that site one actually clicks on?

    Incidentally, if one encounters a blocked site, is there any way to override the block and access it anyway (however inadvisable that might be)? I couldn't see any way to do that.

    Nigel

    PS I also posted a question and a couple of suggestions for enhancements, a couple of weeks ago, at:

    http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/Scan-Local-Drives-filenames-only-show-intermittently/m-p/13236/thread-id/6238

    but I didn't get any reply as yet?

    :1013523
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