There was once a time when Mac OS X users enjoyed “security by obscurity.” Because of the much smaller number of Mac users in the world, hackers didn’t bother targeting Apple desktops and laptops. However, as Apple computers grow more popular than ever, those days are long gone, they’re an increasingly-enticing target for hackers.
In response to this growing threat, Sophos announced the release of Sophos Anti-Virus Free Home Edition for MAC OS X. Based on Sophos’s flagship security software, Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac OSx is available for consumers to download at no charge. Sophos Anti-Virus is a unique solution to the virus problem, providing true cross-platform protection in a single, fully integrated product.
Like paid antivirus solutions, Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac provides automatic on-access detection, running in the background – meaning Mac users are constantly protected against existing and new threats for Windows and Mac viruses, worms, spyware and Trojans. The free software also incorporates strong disinfection capabilities, capable of removing malware infections that may already be present on the Macintosh servers, desktops and laptops.
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Key features of Sophos FREE Anti-Virus For Mac OS X
Complete award-winning protection
- Protect both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs with single install
- Detect, quarantine and clean-up Mac and Windows viruses with award-winning virus protection
- Automatically guard against unknown threats with unique Behavioral Genotype® Protection
- Reduce system impact with high performance scanning performed on access and on demand
Easy to manage across mixed and all-Mac environments
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- Configure Mac protection centrally from the same console as Windows, Linux and UNIX protection
- Get instant visibility of security status, clean up infections, enable automatic email alerts, set scheduled updating and define scanning policies centrally
- Install anti-virus on all your Macs from a single Mac with Sophos Update Manager
- Get the latest protection with small frequent updates from SophosLabs™ that are automatically distributed across your network
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Download Sophos FREE Anti-Virus For Mac OS X from here. Supports all Apple Mac hardware including iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air. Supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
- The SAV OS X installer will download a full version of SAV OS X when it performs its first auto-update.
- (89762) The Scan now with Sophos Anti-Virus item in the Finder contextual menu may sometimes not be displayed correctly.
- (71917) An issue with Mac OS X version 10.7 can cause SAV OS X updates made through a Windows 2003 Server Apple File Protocol (AFP) share to fail.
- (63005) On Macs that are managed by Sophos Enterprise Console or Sophos Control Center, that are running Mac OS X version 10.6, with the Mac OS X firewall turned on, and “Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections” selected, the firewall might display dialogs that ask if you want to deny or allow incoming connections for SophosMessageRouter and SophosManagementAgent. You should click Allow.
- If the immediate scanner moves or copies an infected file to a quarantine folder, the action is intercepted by the on-access scanner. This is because Spotlight indexes the quarantine folder when a file is quarantined there. To work around this, in the Spotlight preferences, put the quarantine folder into the list of excluded folders.
- If you make any of the following configuration changes in the Sophos Anti-Virus updating preferences pages, they do not trigger a differs from policy alert in Sophos Enterprise Console:
- Disable updating from a secondary location.
- Set the primary or secondary proxy to either Use System Proxy Settings or Do Not Use Proxy.