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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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    Hello,

    I'm a satisfied user and promoter of Sophos. I recently installed version 9.0 and found that loading ALL web pages and any rich text email (photos or graphics) suddenly became very slow, i.e. almost to a grinding halt! However when I opened the Web Protection tab in Sophos Preferences and turned off the "Block access to malicious websites..." section, loading speed returned to normal.

    Obviously, the feature is a good one to have, but are you aware of this problem and if so, is it likely to be fixed?

    FYI, I'm running updated OS X Mavericks on an early 2011 Macbook Pro 17" 2.3Ghz I7 with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.

    Jeff

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    Jeff
    If you care about animals, you should be vegan.
    If you don’t care about animals, but you value justice, you should still be vegan.
    Learn more from these resources:
    "THE WORLD IS VEGAN IF YOU WANT IT - Go vegan. It's easy. It’s better for your health (animal foods cause physical harm); it’s better for the planet (animal agriculture is an ecological disaster); and, most importantly, it’s the morally right thing to do." — Professor Gary L. Francione http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/
     
     
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    Hello,

    I'm a satisfied user and promoter of Sophos. I recently installed version 9.0 and found that loading ALL web pages and any rich text email (photos or graphics) suddenly became very slow, i.e. almost to a grinding halt! However when I opened the Web Protection tab in Sophos Preferences and turned off the "Block access to malicious websites..." section, loading speed returned to normal.

    Obviously, the feature is a good one to have, but are you aware of this problem and if so, is it likely to be fixed?

    FYI, I'm running updated OS X Mavericks on an early 2011 Macbook Pro 17" 2.3Ghz I7 with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.

    Jeff

    :1015895
    Jeff
    If you care about animals, you should be vegan.
    If you don’t care about animals, but you value justice, you should still be vegan.
    Learn more from these resources:
    "THE WORLD IS VEGAN IF YOU WANT IT - Go vegan. It's easy. It’s better for your health (animal foods cause physical harm); it’s better for the planet (animal agriculture is an ecological disaster); and, most importantly, it’s the morally right thing to do." — Professor Gary L. Francione http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/
     
     
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