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'El Capitan' Beta Not Supported by SAV for OSX

serra

Hey Everyone,

In the last couple weeks I've seen a few folks post about issues with the new beta release of OSX 'El Capitan' which was released a few weeks ago. Just wanted to pass on the official word that this beta is unsupported. Here's the official KB article.

In our experience:

  • A new install of SAV 9.2.7 on El Capitan is currently expected to fail
  • If SAV is installed and working prior to an upgrade to El Capitan, it "may" continue to work, but we can't guarantee anything.

Please remember, proceed with caution when installing a Beta OS, as we can't guarantee stability.

Our Mac development team is currently working on building and testing a new release of SAV which will be fully compatible and available prior to the official release of El Capitan later this fall.

Thanks everyone for your continued support and patience. Happy Friday!

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    ZRL1 wrote:

    ...While I don't recommend running the Mac that way, if it's the user's production drive (not a good idea with a beta OS), then it's a solution I'd use. Personnally, I consider Sophos AV important enough that I plan to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Yosemite rather than El Capitan for production purposes simply to have Sophos available and running...

    Expanding a bit on my previous observation, I just found this review of AV products for the Mac (download the latest pdf). Given the performance of SAV for OSX, IMHO, leaving System Integrety Protection off in order to keep SAV for Mac on is a more than fair trade, especially since the attacks which System Integrety Protection would block are likely going to be detected and stopped by SAV.

    And no, I don't work for Sophos.:smileywink:

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    ZRL1 wrote:

    ...While I don't recommend running the Mac that way, if it's the user's production drive (not a good idea with a beta OS), then it's a solution I'd use. Personnally, I consider Sophos AV important enough that I plan to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Yosemite rather than El Capitan for production purposes simply to have Sophos available and running...

    Expanding a bit on my previous observation, I just found this review of AV products for the Mac (download the latest pdf). Given the performance of SAV for OSX, IMHO, leaving System Integrety Protection off in order to keep SAV for Mac on is a more than fair trade, especially since the attacks which System Integrety Protection would block are likely going to be detected and stopped by SAV.

    And no, I don't work for Sophos.:smileywink:

    :1021375
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