Sophos Antivirus Is Not Running

Sophos Antivirus Is Not Running

The program will quickly run a scan on the Caches folder and you will see something like this in the scan summary in the Terminal window 5628 files swept in 25 seconds. 4 errors were encountered. No viruses were discovered. Ending Sophos Anti-Virus. 2 days ago  Like Sophos, Bitdefender and G Data also achieved 99% protection in their latest runs of this test. At the very top, McAfee and Vipre Antivirus Plus earned a perfect 100% score.

Apple has released a new security mechanism called Secure Kernel Extension Loading (SKEL) in MacOS 10.13. This affects all applications/software using non-Apple kernel extensions and users are required to manually add the affected applications/software into the trusted list before the applications/software can be used. This allows the kernel extensions to load and is required for Sophos Anti-Virus to function properly. Users of MacOS 10.13 are required to do the following steps for newly installed Sophos Anti-Virus:

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1. After installing Sophos Anti-virus, go to “Security & Privacy” under Apple System Preferences.

2. At the bottom of the window, you will see “System software from developer “Sophos” was blocked from loading”. Click “Allow”.

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Once authorized, all future Sophos kernel extensions are allowed, even after uninstallation. This step is not required again on a reinstallation. Kernel extensions already installed during an upgrade from MacOS 10.12 are automatically authorized.

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Advisory: Apple MacOS 10.13 High Sierra Support:https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/127413#Sophos