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Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" and SAV for Mac

bobcook

Apple released Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" today, free for everyone with Snow Leopard or newer.

We've been testing our product with this release for many months now and had made numerous changes in version 9.0.3 (the version published about a month ago). The significant changes required were to change how we were building, codesigning, and installing our kernel extensions. You will now find two copies of our kext: one in /System/Library/Extensions and another in /Library/Extensions. This follows Apple's recommendation to support people transitioning from 10.8 to 10.9.

The kexts in /System/Library/Extensions are present for compatiblity with versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.9. Starting in "Mavericks" the location is /Library/Extensions. We are codesigning the kexts in /Library/Extensions to conform to Apple's security requirements.

If you have issues, please report them in this thread.

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    bobcook wrote:
    cashxx wrote:

    Has the Web Protection been in past versions of the Free Sophos versions or am I right in thinking it came out with version 9??

    Web Protection was added in version 9 for the Home Edition as well as the business version.

    The feature works by proxying web browser traffic. There are two controls, one uses a realtime URL reputation check and the second passes the content through our malware detection engine. They are related but have different performance characteristics. It would be useful to know if one or both of these settings are causing your slow browsing experience.

    The reputation check involves a lookup of the destination URL against our servers, to see if we have identified it as a malicious software source. If there is an issue reaching our servers this could have a severe impact on browsing performance. The content scan is completely local to your machine, should be unaffected by the reputation check.

    Do you have other web or network security software installed? Could be a conflict of some sort, and if so we'd like to know about it so we can ensure others aren't going to run into the same problem.

    Shouldn't be any issues getting to the Sophos server on my home network or on my work computer.  I'm in IT and our VLAN has full access to the internet and not going through a proxy or anything.  At home its just my router, nothing special.

    The install was a format and install of mavericks and basic apps like Office, Adobe CS 6, etc.  With the last thing being Sophos 9.0.3 Free Edition being installed.  

    Thats what was driving me nuts, it was a fresh install of everything and Safari was dragging.  Eventually installed Chrome and Firefox and all of them had issues and I thought it was a bug in Mavericks networking stack or something then I got to thinking if Sophos slipped something in there and sure enough I seen that Web Protection and turned it off and it cleared up.  

    Will mess with those settings and see if I can get any more info.

    Thanks,


    Dan

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    bobcook wrote:
    cashxx wrote:

    Has the Web Protection been in past versions of the Free Sophos versions or am I right in thinking it came out with version 9??

    Web Protection was added in version 9 for the Home Edition as well as the business version.

    The feature works by proxying web browser traffic. There are two controls, one uses a realtime URL reputation check and the second passes the content through our malware detection engine. They are related but have different performance characteristics. It would be useful to know if one or both of these settings are causing your slow browsing experience.

    The reputation check involves a lookup of the destination URL against our servers, to see if we have identified it as a malicious software source. If there is an issue reaching our servers this could have a severe impact on browsing performance. The content scan is completely local to your machine, should be unaffected by the reputation check.

    Do you have other web or network security software installed? Could be a conflict of some sort, and if so we'd like to know about it so we can ensure others aren't going to run into the same problem.

    Shouldn't be any issues getting to the Sophos server on my home network or on my work computer.  I'm in IT and our VLAN has full access to the internet and not going through a proxy or anything.  At home its just my router, nothing special.

    The install was a format and install of mavericks and basic apps like Office, Adobe CS 6, etc.  With the last thing being Sophos 9.0.3 Free Edition being installed.  

    Thats what was driving me nuts, it was a fresh install of everything and Safari was dragging.  Eventually installed Chrome and Firefox and all of them had issues and I thought it was a bug in Mavericks networking stack or something then I got to thinking if Sophos slipped something in there and sure enough I seen that Web Protection and turned it off and it cleared up.  

    Will mess with those settings and see if I can get any more info.

    Thanks,


    Dan

    :1014181
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