Comments on: 2007 Apple Year in Review: Security http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/ TheAppleBlog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Graham Cluley http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112769 Graham Cluley Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:20:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112769 Sorry LARick, I wasn't clear at all in my reply to you. We *do* run fine on a single PC or Mac, but as we focus on protecting businesses you would need to purchase a minimum of a 5 user license. Sorry for not being clearer in my post. It just isn't economical for us to supply the high level of tech support that we believe is important with a security product at a competitive single user price. Of course, many of our business licenses include a waiver to allow workers to use our software at home too.. so that's another route. Cheers, and sorry about the confusion. Graham Cluley, Sophos Sorry LARick, I wasn’t clear at all in my reply to you.

We *do* run fine on a single PC or Mac, but as we focus on protecting businesses you would need to purchase a minimum of a 5 user license. Sorry for not being clearer in my post.

It just isn’t economical for us to supply the high level of tech support that we believe is important with a security product at a competitive single user price. Of course, many of our business licenses include a waiver to allow workers to use our software at home too.. so that’s another route.

Cheers, and sorry about the confusion.

Graham Cluley, Sophos

]]> By: LARick http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112768 LARick Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:38:26 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112768 Graham, How do I buy it then? I sent and inquiry via your website and got the following back from Jackin Harper when I asked for single user pricing: "As for pricing, unfortunately because we do not cater to home/single users we have a 5 licence minimum for our products. If you are interest in getting a quote for 5 user licences please let me know and send me your full contact details, including zip code. You may want to look at these third party websites to find an alternative security vendor:" What is the correct way of going about buying a home license? Graham,

How do I buy it then? I sent and inquiry via your website and got the following back from Jackin Harper when I asked for single user pricing:

“As for pricing, unfortunately because we do not cater to home/single users
we have a 5 licence minimum for our products. If you are interest in
getting a quote for 5 user licences please let me know and send me your
full contact details, including zip code. You may want to look at these
third party websites to find an alternative security vendor:”

What is the correct way of going about buying a home license?

]]> By: Graham Cluley http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112767 Graham Cluley Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:32:57 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112767 Here at Sophos we are definitely seeing a rise in financially-motivated malware for Mac OS X, although obviously it's tiny in comparison to the Windows problem. Scott is right that Sophos <a href="http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/10/mac-leopard.html" rel="nofollow">announced its Mac OS X anti-virus product</a> before McAfee. LARick - yes, Sophos focuses on protecting businesses rather than home users, although we do run just fine on a single Mac (like I'm using right now!) Cheers Graham, Sophos Here at Sophos we are definitely seeing a rise in financially-motivated malware for Mac OS X, although obviously it’s tiny in comparison to the Windows problem.

Scott is right that Sophos announced its Mac OS X anti-virus product before McAfee.

LARick - yes, Sophos focuses on protecting businesses rather than home users, although we do run just fine on a single Mac (like I’m using right now!)

Cheers
Graham, Sophos

]]> By: LARick http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112761 LARick Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:31:03 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112761 I've looked at both the McAfee and Sophos products and there appears to be no home edition for either vendor. McAfee has a license for 3 or more computers and Sophos starts at 5 computers. Symantec/Norton does have home edition that now supports 10.5, but I've used Norton in the past on my Macs and it was very invasive/buggy. Please correct me if I am mistaken on the above, but I can't find single user versions on their sites. ClamXAV, as far as I can tell does not support Leopard as of yet. I’ve looked at both the McAfee and Sophos products and there appears to be no home edition for either vendor. McAfee has a license for 3 or more computers and Sophos starts at 5 computers. Symantec/Norton does have home edition that now supports 10.5, but I’ve used Norton in the past on my Macs and it was very invasive/buggy.

Please correct me if I am mistaken on the above, but I can’t find single user versions on their sites.

ClamXAV, as far as I can tell does not support Leopard as of yet.

]]> By: Scott http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112731 Scott Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:44:56 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/12/12/2007-apple-year-in-review-security/#comment-112731 I think that you have an error here, where you state that McAfee had their Leopard anti-malware solution out first. This is incorrect, as Sophos had a full supported version on the day prior to the release of Leopard. I think that you have an error here, where you state that McAfee had their Leopard anti-malware solution out first. This is incorrect, as Sophos had a full supported version on the day prior to the release of Leopard.

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