Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: overview

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X provides a number of new features including:

• New GUI delivers a Mac look-and-feel, and a more intuitive user experience.
• Redesigned code supports multi-core processors and optimises CPU use for Intel processors to deliver double the on-demand scanning speed.
• Exclusion capability for on-demand scans has been extended to include wildcards, in addition to files and folders.
• On-access scanning now features exclusion capability for files, folders and wildcards.

System requirements
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 7, supports Mac OS X 10.4/10.5. Refer to the Sophos product web pages for full details of the system requirements.

Note: for details of Sophos Anti-Virus support for Mac OS X 10.3 and below, refer to the Software lifecycle pages.

Installation and configuration

• Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: how to upgrade to version 7
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: installation location of Sophos Anti-Virus
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: drag-and-drop to scan functionality updated
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X: 'Scan This Mac' does not scan network shares which are not mounted in /Volumes/