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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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    FrMFX wrote:

    That link redirects to http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/next-gen-firewall which seems to be for a hardware firewall.

    Can you tell us a bit about the Web Protection in the Mac application? Is it a blacklist type of blocking?

    Sorry about that, our website reorganization has retired the nifty video that explained it.

    The web protection for the Mac is a two-part process:

    (1) send the URL (without any personally identifable information like query strings) and IP address of the remote server to SophosLabs; their servers return a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" about the server your Mac is trying to connect to. This is sort of like a "blacklist" but a really big one that is dynamically maintained by SophosLabs based on their view of the web, and spam traps, and analysis of malicious or suspicious software.

    (2) scan the content returned from the remote server with our threat detection engine, looking for malcious downloads and it also inspects HTML pages and Javascript that might try to trick your browser into showing you content that is suspicious looking e.g. iframes that try to redirect your browser to bad servers, etc.

    Hope that helps, please let me know if you are looking for more detail.

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    FrMFX wrote:

    That link redirects to http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/next-gen-firewall which seems to be for a hardware firewall.

    Can you tell us a bit about the Web Protection in the Mac application? Is it a blacklist type of blocking?

    Sorry about that, our website reorganization has retired the nifty video that explained it.

    The web protection for the Mac is a two-part process:

    (1) send the URL (without any personally identifable information like query strings) and IP address of the remote server to SophosLabs; their servers return a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" about the server your Mac is trying to connect to. This is sort of like a "blacklist" but a really big one that is dynamically maintained by SophosLabs based on their view of the web, and spam traps, and analysis of malicious or suspicious software.

    (2) scan the content returned from the remote server with our threat detection engine, looking for malcious downloads and it also inspects HTML pages and Javascript that might try to trick your browser into showing you content that is suspicious looking e.g. iframes that try to redirect your browser to bad servers, etc.

    Hope that helps, please let me know if you are looking for more detail.

    :1013533
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