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

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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  • MacVegan wrote:

    However, I've also noticed that it is not updating every hour as selected in preferences. And when I click "Update Now", a pop up says it's up to date, but the last checked time is always showing the same date and time (now over two days ago). 


    Yep this is an issue that is resolved in 9.0.8 (should be rolled out for the home edition users next Tuesday). In the meantime, "force quit" the Sophos AutoUpdate process. It will restart and return itself to normal (at least for a while).

    This was a really interesting bug that took a while to find and squash. We believe we've finally nailed it.

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  • MacVegan wrote:

    However, I've also noticed that it is not updating every hour as selected in preferences. And when I click "Update Now", a pop up says it's up to date, but the last checked time is always showing the same date and time (now over two days ago). 


    Yep this is an issue that is resolved in 9.0.8 (should be rolled out for the home edition users next Tuesday). In the meantime, "force quit" the Sophos AutoUpdate process. It will restart and return itself to normal (at least for a while).

    This was a really interesting bug that took a while to find and squash. We believe we've finally nailed it.

    :1015915
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