Latest pre-release of 10.11.4 breaks Sophos AV Home Edition

Question

The problem that existed prior to the release of 9.4.1 is back with the latest version of El Capitan that has just been pre-released 10.11.4 Beta (15E27e). The Sophos icon remains dimmed in the menu bar with the error On-Access Scanning Is Disabled. Could someone in engineering please take a look at this?

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ZRL1 · Accepted Answer

JohnGillett said: No, I am unaware of that method. Turned it off in Sys Prefs. What is the command line, please?

Reboot into Recovery (Cmd+R at the chime). In Utilities>Terminal enter "csrutil disable" and reboot. That will disable SIP and On-Access Scanning should work. Note that this is not a "solution" since Apple added SIP to El Capitan for security purposes and really should be enabled. Moreover, it's likely that any future beta will turn it back on by default. Also, csrutil has three arguments: disable, enable, and status. The first two will only work in Recovery. Status will also work in Terminal after booting normally.

ChrisNeale · Answer

Hi Just updated to Beta 3 and sops seems to be back working

bocaboy · Answer

Sophos released 9.4.2 today of Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition and it seems to be running fine with the latest beta build of OS X 10.11.4 build 15E39d. I've re-enabled SIP and everything is back to normal.