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Version 9.4 Now Available

bobcook

Hello everyone,

We have published a new installer for the 9.4 release to sophos.com:

www.sophos.com/.../sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

When you download the installer it will upgrade an existing installation to version 9.4, if you are still running 9.2.

New features in this version:

  • Detection and cleanup of Potentially Unwanted Applications (adware, spyware, and certain remote access tools fall into this category)
  • Updated Quarantine Manager user interface
  • Faster and more stable Web Protection filtering
  • Faster boot times due to cacheing of previously scanned system files
  • Compatible with the System Integrity Protection feature on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  • More reliable updating code when the network condition is less than ideal (you might have heard about this issue in these forums)
  • Numerous security and stability improvements

The detection of PUAs for the On-Access scanner will be enabled automatically. These applications will be blocked from running automatically. Its possible we will detect tools that you are using as part of your daily routine - if so you can “authorize” their usage from the new Quarantine Manager window. You can later undo this choice by visiting the Authorizations preferences panel.

Custom scans can also detect and optionally clean up PUAs when detected. Newly created Custom Scans will also enable PUA detection automatically. Check out the Options tab for each scan definition. If you are upgrading from 9.2 your existing Custom Scans will not be changed.

As of Thursday September 25, 2015 all existing installations should automatically upgrade to 9.4.0.

Thanks from the SAV for Mac engineering team!



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    I installed the 9.4 and I'm now getting prompts (not sure exactly when or what triggers these) from Little Snitch to allow SophosConfigD via "macep.feedback.sophos.com" on Port 443.

    That's not something I ever encountered with the previous version. Can you please explain what its purpose is. What data from my system is being sent outbound back to Sophos?

  • 0 in reply to brvx
    Bob, I'd really like to get an answer to this question. I hadn't been allowing ConfigD (via Little Snitch) and when I mounted an external drive, Intercheck was pinning the CPU at close to 100%, and everything was almost frozen. Then when I tried to force quit Intercheck to stop the freezing, I got a kernel panic.

    None of this happens if I allow ConfigD, which I was forced into doing to avoid the freezing when an external is mounted.

    I still want to know what ConfigD is doing and what, if any, data it's phoning home with.
  • 0 in reply to brvx

    Also, new problem with the 9.4. Couldn't install an Office 2011 security update. Intercheck was pinning the CPU and wouldn't let go. Had to force quit Intercheck. I am thinking that this 9.4 is more trouble than it's worth.


    I've uninstalled the 9.4 and reverted to the 9.2.7 until the bugs get worked out.

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  • 0 in reply to brvx

    Also, new problem with the 9.4. Couldn't install an Office 2011 security update. Intercheck was pinning the CPU and wouldn't let go. Had to force quit Intercheck. I am thinking that this 9.4 is more trouble than it's worth.


    I've uninstalled the 9.4 and reverted to the 9.2.7 until the bugs get worked out.

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  • 0 in reply to brvx
    I'm also having too many problems with 9.4, and would like to revert back to 9.2.7. Does anyone have, or know where I can download version 9.2.7?
  • 0 in reply to brvx
    Hello! How did you uninstall 9.4 and go back to 9.2? I have to have Sophos on my Mac to log on to my VPN for my job, and 9.4 does not support Junos, so I have been unable to log on. I desperately need to go back to 9.2 as I have already been out for 2 days trying to solve this issue : ( ! any help would be appreciated. thank you
  • 0 in reply to lucy0323

    Might no longer be possible. I did this before the 9.4 automatically updated. Now I'm on 9.4 and, like you, probably with no way to downgrade--and even if I could find a way to downgrade, as soon as the definitions updated, that would also bring the 9.4 back with them.

    If, somehow, you could get back the 9.2.7 (from a backup maybe?), I suppose then you could turn off automatic updating.  But, of course, that would leave you unprotected if there were any new important definitions. XProtect, although with limitations, would probably cover you--that said, Apple has been known to be lackadaisical in getting out XProtect updates quickly--one of the reasons I use Sophos. Just in case Sophos catalogs something sooner than Apple--also by no means  a sure thing.


    Maybe someone else as an idea.

  • 0 in reply to lucy0323
    In your "Applications" folder you will find the "Remove Sophos Anti-Virus.app," then I used a free app called "EasyFind" to remove a few other Sophos remnants. I was unable to locate Sophos 9.2 on the internet, but did find 9.0.1, which I used temporarly till 9.4 was fixed.
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