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Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac V7.3.1 is compatible with Mac OS X Lion

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Apple just launched their latest operating system OS X 10.7 (Lion) today and we wanted to let you know that your version of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac already supports it.


In anticipation of the Lion launch, we released an update at the end of June that automatically upgraded SAV for Mac to v7.3.1. This version is compatible with OS X Lion so whenever you upgrade to Lion, you’’’’ll be fully protected.


If you are a home user and don’’’’t have Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac already installed, or have not been upgraded to v7.3.1, you can download the latest version for free here: http://www.sophos.com/freemacav

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    Yes, Intercheck is the app that actually performs the scanning operations when files are accessed.

    I've observed that the very first Time Machine backup will end up finding ~8GB of changed files, and the process of finding then backing up will definitely perform a lot of disk activity (and those operations are going to trigger the on-access anti-virus scanner). On my own MacBook Pro (first unibody model, 4Gb RAM, with about 400Gb of files) it took about an hour for the first backup to complete. The machine was slightly sluggish, although depending on your h/w, "sluggish" might either be an understatement or an overstatement.

    Can you provide some details about your experience so far? What is your system currently doing and how long ago did you perform the upgrade?

    If you switch off the on-access scanner does the performance improve? You should only do this temporarily, and avoid downloading files from the internet or untrusted servers (your machine won't be protected from accidentally copying a malicious file until you re-enable the on-access scanner).

    Thanks for your feedback!

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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    Yes, Intercheck is the app that actually performs the scanning operations when files are accessed.

    I've observed that the very first Time Machine backup will end up finding ~8GB of changed files, and the process of finding then backing up will definitely perform a lot of disk activity (and those operations are going to trigger the on-access anti-virus scanner). On my own MacBook Pro (first unibody model, 4Gb RAM, with about 400Gb of files) it took about an hour for the first backup to complete. The machine was slightly sluggish, although depending on your h/w, "sluggish" might either be an understatement or an overstatement.

    Can you provide some details about your experience so far? What is your system currently doing and how long ago did you perform the upgrade?

    If you switch off the on-access scanner does the performance improve? You should only do this temporarily, and avoid downloading files from the internet or untrusted servers (your machine won't be protected from accidentally copying a malicious file until you re-enable the on-access scanner).

    Thanks for your feedback!

    :1003497

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    Bob Cook (bob.cook@sophos.com) Director, Software Development

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