Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

[pdiaz]

Hey guys as you may know apple has mountain-lion coming soon know as you know mac over 500,000 got hacked

do you think with in mountain lion apple will stop malware on macs ?

also is Sophos going to be allowed to run on a mac from apple as when it comes out i will be useing 

Gatekeeper 

and i will be useing Mac App Store And identified dev 

so i need to know are you going to go and use mountain-lion with Sophos free home for mac 

?

will i hope so 

also if i was runing java would you guys sophos stop that java bug hack thing o but i'm hope im safe 

[Agile]

1) Malware is a social problem more than a technical problem; therefore, it will never be stopped completely.

2) There's already a thread on here where Mountain Lion users are reporting their results running SAV 7 and SAV 8 -- so it will work.

2a) Gatekeeper is XProtect (which has been installed since 10.6) with a bit more logic and a bit more user interface -- it plays fine with Sophos, as it's not a real kernel-level scanning solution.  See: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/17/apples-gatekeeper-security-feature-leaves-a-lot-to-be-des... (and while Sophos may be biased, this summary is essentially correct).

3) We do detect the Java exploit, but on the Mac, it would have to be cached to disk for us to detect it, as we aren't currently doing in-memory detection.  However, with Apple's recent updates for 10.6 through 10.8, the exploit is patched, so you only need to beware of OTHER plugin exploits.