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Sophos Anti-Virus 7.1.5

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Sophos Anti-Virus protects network, desktop and remote laptop computers from the latest viruses, Trojans, worms and malicious spyware. Protecting the desktop means that regardless of how a virus attempts to break in it can be stopped. Sophos's on-access scanner provides constant real-time protection with minimal system overhead.

Network servers can also be protected with scheduled or constant real-time scanning, ensuring there is no opportunity for a virus to spread or damage your organization's data.

What's New

Version 7.1.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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ver. 7.x:

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Mactraxx reviewed on 21 May 2011

Works great! I've been using Macs since 1984 and have never seen a virus on any Mac, but recently my mother in law was duped into downloading and installing a trojan that once installed, places a menu bar item on the machine that constantly nags you that your machine is infected and to pay them to buy the "anti virus" software to clean and remove it. Total scam. It also hijacks the machine's DNS settings and was automatically launching Safari and taking her to porn sites. Not nice. After installing Sophos and running it, if found 4 viruses that it successfully removed which was a whole lot easier than re formatting and restoring her software. Worked like a charm, is free, and now does it's thing in the background to keep her safe. I've also made her a regular user (Not Admin) to protect herself from herself and prevent her from accidentally installing future malware. Sophos saved us a lot of time to clean up her system. Highly recommend.

[Version 7.1.5]

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Star-Affinity replied on 29 Nov 2011

Sound like your mother in law got the fake anti-malware ”Mac Defender” into her computer.

While I'm happy Sophos Anti-Virus solved the problem, a quick search on the internet would inform how to remove it. It's quite easy (I've done it on two computers) and there's no need to re-install the operating system.

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Big-Mac-XXL reviewed on 07 Jul 2010

Sophos found only 2 of 3 of the quite common virusus on a USB stick from a PC friend. ClamXav found all 3. Sophos' GUI is not user friendly and logical. When the scan is done nothing happens. No warnings of viruses, no window is popping up, no log is displayed. You have to open the log yourself. In the log you have to search for the infected files, they are not highlighted. Quite a strange program. Could be a Norton killer if they would make the effort to fix those issues. I don't understand why ClamXav has better results in virus detection. In tests on PC's Sophos is usually among the best AV programs and Clam is among the worst. Sophos is still a good scanner on the Mac. Tip: always use two scanners (not at the same time of course!) to get all malware.

[Version 7.1.5]

Tom Chick commented on 23 Mar 2010

This has one of the most functional features of any AV program I have come across. Lets get this straight, i don't, as a rule, need AV software for the mac, but as an IT guy, this is awesome because when i mount an NTFS volume on my mac, to do data backup, or troubleshoot, It scans it, and shows me where the viruses are, and i can manually remove them. That alone makes it rock. :-)

[Version 7.1.3]

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Der~bot~haus commented on 20 Jan 2010

You don't get it. This is not for people at home to keep them safe. Sophos has always been for the Enterprise. The Enterprise requires you have some virus insurance and they don't like the free alternatives because of the lack of support available. If they get audited they are covered. I have been the recipient of countless macros .doc viruses over the years. They would have been proliferated across my network had I not been warned. So go use your calmXav and the like. The pro's use Sophos. If you do this kind of thing for a living. PS. Apple corporate uses it as well. So you must know something Apple doesn't.

[Version 7.1.3]

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Naoh replied on 21 Jan 2010

The thing that really sets Sophos apart from the pack, is that there is a single management tool for enterprise deployment and management. (Admittedly this tool has to run on a computer running Windows, but if you're providing IT support in a midsize to large enterprise environment, you'll be likely to have access to one of those.)

One note for anyone downloading the file that is linked to by MacUpdate: That version is Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0, not the latest 7.1.

If you want the latest copy of Sophos Anti-Virus, log in to the Sophos website support pages and download it from there. Also, make sure that you get the correct version; savosx71sa.dmg is the stand-alone version for non-managed environments while savosx71ni.dmg is the version that supports being managed.

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26cab40 reviewed on 17 Jan 2010

Hilarious.

These vampires are trying to get their fingers into the Mac now.

Common sense will keep you virus free on the Mac, as long as you have a good virus solution on your Windows machine plus the aforementioned common sense, that should be enough.

Think about it.

What happens to the Anti-Virus companies when an OS comes along that is resistant to them ?

They go out of business.

It's in their best interests to KEEP virus's out there.

It's all a giant game.

The Trojan & Bot writers want your money, the Anti-Virus companies want your money and Microsoft will not create an OS that is more secure for fear of alienating those billion dollar companies.

[Version 7.1.2]

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Formica commented on 26 Jun 2009

I tried the latest version of this, and I felt like I was back on a Windows 98 machine! There's nothing Mac-ish about this (cr)app at all.

Like the rest of you, I HATED Norton AntiVirus for years, but they've finally (v. 11) figured out how to make it work without sucking down resources in the background all the time. Of course, if you just copied at 4 GB movie to your HD it's going to be slightly noticeable while it checks it out, but it does so fast now and leaves plenty of resources for the other kids to play with. And it's a lot Macier than Sophos.

[Version 4.9]

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madison_mac commented on 23 Apr 2009

Where do I go to buy a single copy of Sophos antivirus? They don't sell it on their website.

I searched MacMall / Maczone.com and couldn't find it.

Why do they make it so hard to puchase? Is it for businesses only and not for sale to individuals?

If you have a link you could post where I can buy a copy of it online, please do so.

[Version 4.9]

1 Reply

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O5220803 replied on 02 May 2009

Try this link: http://www.sophos.com/partners/channel/find/unitedstates.html

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scottwild.co reviewed on 29 Dec 2008

Best and really, the only antivirus for the mac. Catches windows and mac viruses.I have been using it for 6 months now without any issues.
Forget norton, they cant even make a decent antivirus for the PC!! never mind mac and clam takes ages to scan.

[Version 4.9]

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Pirx commented on 20 Sep 2008

I agree that SOPHOS is the very best anti-virus software on the planet, however, since their Singapore and China offices in charge of my business are totally unresponsive to multiple requests for purchasing the software, individually and for my company, I bought a different solution.

Corporate arrogance is the beginning of the end.

[Version 4.9]

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a2295964 reviewed on 15 Jun 2006

virex is still crap...! norton-av is a pure kernelpanic-app... intego's av solution is very fast... but useless, it only knows mac viruses... so, it's useless. clam-av is nice but it takes a day to scan 10GB! i use sophos anti-virus since 1½years . ...no crashes, no kernelpanics! Test it!

[Version 3.93]

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