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Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac version 9.0 Preview

bobcook

Hi everyone,

Today we published Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac version 9.0 Preview for your evaluation and use.

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.

This is a "preview" release. The product has passed all of our internal quality assurance testing but we are looking for additional feedback from real users in the real world. Barring any undiscovered defects, this version provides the same protection as version 8 plus protection for web browsing. The product will get regular updates too.

Download the version 9.0 Preview installer here: http://downloads.sophos.com/home-edition/savosx_90_he.zip

SHA-256 checksum of the 9.0.0 zip file: 0252e80845d38e43c9638983900d3f9a91dac4b2e9c028e787e4a8e40018d4c1

SHA-256 checksum of the 9.0.1 zip file: 4719154788e5e4251dc76bfecde842ea7fd08db32e36ecef0072335ca156bb4a

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 but later this year we'll migrate all version 8 installations.

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.

Note that the version 8 installer is still available from our main website: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

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 in advance for your feedback.

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    Hello John,

    it seems also provide Sophos (or anyone who taps the network connection) with a complete log of all the web pages I visit

    an understandable concern but mostly unfounded. For HTTP anyone who taps the network connection can view requests for pages including headers and responses in full anyway so there's not much left that could be revealed by the lookups. The lookup itself contains just the URL (in somewhat encoded form) and the Sophos SXL version (the component which does the lookups) - nothing else, no browser info, no referrer, cookies or other data - and of course the originating IP (which could be those of a proxy) can be extracted from the connection. As repeated lookups for the same URL within a certain interval are avoided it doesn't produce a complete trail.

    Thus - all that could identify you is the IP (if you're not using a proxy) and what could be recorded is an incomplete list of URL requests. Perhaps slightly useful of someone has no other information about you and your browsing behaviour. Now compare this to the "features" you usually find on a web page: Google Analytics and other statistics and counter tools, geolocation, various buttons, advertising and so on - all these collect much more information about you   

    Christian

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    Hello John,

    it seems also provide Sophos (or anyone who taps the network connection) with a complete log of all the web pages I visit

    an understandable concern but mostly unfounded. For HTTP anyone who taps the network connection can view requests for pages including headers and responses in full anyway so there's not much left that could be revealed by the lookups. The lookup itself contains just the URL (in somewhat encoded form) and the Sophos SXL version (the component which does the lookups) - nothing else, no browser info, no referrer, cookies or other data - and of course the originating IP (which could be those of a proxy) can be extracted from the connection. As repeated lookups for the same URL within a certain interval are avoided it doesn't produce a complete trail.

    Thus - all that could identify you is the IP (if you're not using a proxy) and what could be recorded is an incomplete list of URL requests. Perhaps slightly useful of someone has no other information about you and your browsing behaviour. Now compare this to the "features" you usually find on a web page: Google Analytics and other statistics and counter tools, geolocation, various buttons, advertising and so on - all these collect much more information about you   

    Christian

    :1012486
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