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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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    bobcook wrote:
    ZRL1 wrote:

    Since version 8 does its own automatic updates, is it possible to include in the update an alert that users will notice saying "V 8 has reached end of life so 'click here' if you want to upgrade to version 9, but note that v 9 won't work with PPC Macs or those running 10.5 or earlier so don't 'click here' if you're in that group. V 8 will continue to function but virus signature updates and bug fixes will no longer be offered?" Judging from traffic on the Apple Communities, Sophos users are a very small subset of Mac users, and, like Lake Wobegon, all are "above average," so it should be sufficient.

    Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure we'll do this exact thing, some users don't really want pop-ups showing up unexpectedly. But the idea is good: we need a better way to send messages or solicit feedback from users. This forum is helpful but we are getting a very, very small number of our users visiting each month.

    I force an "Update Now" from the Sophos menu when I start up so I don't normally get to see the automatic updates happen; when an update is done manually, the AutoUpdate window opens to show the progress. If that normally happens with automatic updates too, that might be an acceptable pop-up vehicle for the announcement, or if it doesn't, perhaps showing the window could be introduced as a "new feature." After all, it's comforting to know Anti-Virus is on the job.

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    bobcook wrote:
    ZRL1 wrote:

    Since version 8 does its own automatic updates, is it possible to include in the update an alert that users will notice saying "V 8 has reached end of life so 'click here' if you want to upgrade to version 9, but note that v 9 won't work with PPC Macs or those running 10.5 or earlier so don't 'click here' if you're in that group. V 8 will continue to function but virus signature updates and bug fixes will no longer be offered?" Judging from traffic on the Apple Communities, Sophos users are a very small subset of Mac users, and, like Lake Wobegon, all are "above average," so it should be sufficient.

    Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure we'll do this exact thing, some users don't really want pop-ups showing up unexpectedly. But the idea is good: we need a better way to send messages or solicit feedback from users. This forum is helpful but we are getting a very, very small number of our users visiting each month.

    I force an "Update Now" from the Sophos menu when I start up so I don't normally get to see the automatic updates happen; when an update is done manually, the AutoUpdate window opens to show the progress. If that normally happens with automatic updates too, that might be an acceptable pop-up vehicle for the announcement, or if it doesn't, perhaps showing the window could be introduced as a "new feature." After all, it's comforting to know Anti-Virus is on the job.

    :1013763
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