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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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    Bob,

    Maybe the solution has to be to update/upgrade/replace the updating system that you use? As it is, neither of the two options you describe is ideal. But, there are many software distributors using updating functions that clearly can and do distinguish not only OS platforms, but also OS versions, so I'm sure there must be other software available. Failing that, or just alternatively, maybe Apple themselves can offer some developer-level support to help you with this?

    The biggest trouble I see, though, is that all those who have your current software, with in-built update function, will not get updated to any new mechanism UNTIL they actually uograde to a new version with an updated updater. But maybe it's possible for you to update the updater function through the existing automatic updates function, following which it would then be possible for the updating function to detect OS version and offer major version updates accordingly?

    Hmmmm, I just re-read that last sentence - it does say what I meant, but I hope it makes sense to you! ;-)

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    Bob,

    Maybe the solution has to be to update/upgrade/replace the updating system that you use? As it is, neither of the two options you describe is ideal. But, there are many software distributors using updating functions that clearly can and do distinguish not only OS platforms, but also OS versions, so I'm sure there must be other software available. Failing that, or just alternatively, maybe Apple themselves can offer some developer-level support to help you with this?

    The biggest trouble I see, though, is that all those who have your current software, with in-built update function, will not get updated to any new mechanism UNTIL they actually uograde to a new version with an updated updater. But maybe it's possible for you to update the updater function through the existing automatic updates function, following which it would then be possible for the updating function to detect OS version and offer major version updates accordingly?

    Hmmmm, I just re-read that last sentence - it does say what I meant, but I hope it makes sense to you! ;-)

    :1013731
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