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Announcement spoiler

QC

SophosTalk is not the only Sophos forum. Reading the other one and then checking my Update Managers I saw that

Sophos for Mac 8.0.1 is already available. According to the Announcement at FreeTalk version 8 now offers Live Protection and - as "promised" in the Console Help - also schedule scans. These features aren't mentioned in the Sophos Anti-Virus 8 for Mac OS X help though (or I just didn't see it).

Sorry - couldn't wait :smileywink:

Christian

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    Oooh, so it is... nice.  So is this still in beta stages, or just going through a staged roll-out by Sophos?  I notice my update managers are still downloading version 7, but is there any reason why I shouldn't manually change it to version 8?

    Subject to the usual 'try it on a test machine first' routine of course :smileyfrustrated:

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    It's not Beta - but as usual a major version change is not enforced (same as with Windows versions 9.0 -> 9.5/.9.7/10.0). If you haven't subscribed the "suggested" value on the drop down is already 8 Recommended.

    Now I suggest you take a look at the FreeTalk forum where 8.0.1 (and some issues) is already discussed.

    Christian

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    Ah, of course - my mistake.  I was thinking of the option to automatically update versions when they're no longer supported, which I have enabled.  Forgot that one key fact :smileyembarrassed:

    Live protection and scheduled scans could be quite useful for the few doorstops Macs we have around here, so the new version certainly seems worth it.

    Thanks for the info!

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    Just updated to version 8 and ran an on-demand scan on a few of our Macs.  Nice being able to do this from the console now :smileyhappy:   On the plus side, Sophos has now found a couple of infected autorun.inf files that had been copied over to one of the machines (but never actually accessed, so on-access scanning missed it).  If anyone has Mac machines and hasn't yet upgraded to version 8, it comes recommended from me!

    Now I just need to find a way to get rid of the copy inside a time-machine backup... :smileyindifferent:

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