Some time ago, I used
/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Remove Sophos Anti-Virus.pkg
to remove SAV .
On 2011-01-04 following installation of 7.2.2,
Sophos Anti-Virus.app would not launch. Crashed every time.
Eight of eight application support files, property lists, were unreadable by plutil — all eight failed the default -lint option.
Application support files written by 7.2.2 on 2011-01-05 seem to be OK; they were readable by plutil and by Property List Editor.app
It seems that the format used by the .app for property lists in the
~/Library/Application Support/Sophos Anti-Virus/
area has changed at some point between 7.2.1C and 7.2.2. However, it's difficult to tell when release notes are a mess.
Crash reports etc. at
in particular:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x62, 0x70, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x73, 0x74, 0x30, 0x30)'
Copies of the troublesome application support files are at
http://www.wuala.com/%23%23Sophos-Mac/2011/01/05/a
Workaround
Set aside application support files relating to all scans, including the predefined Scan This Mac.
Observation
Seeing Schedules in relation to a version that does not support schedules makes me wonder whether something from a private beta is creeping into public releases.
Suggestions
When any edition of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X fails to read a property list that is incomprehensible, it should fail more gracefully; not crash.
If the troublesome property lists relate to Scan This Mac, those files should be overwritten with good files.
If the troublesome property lists relate to a custom scan previously created by the user, the .app should:
• report the trouble
• set aside the troublesome files
• invite the user to recreate that scan.
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