Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS
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Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS is endpoint security software that detects and removes malware, viruses, and threats on Apple computers.
Summary
Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS is a commercial endpoint-security cyber tool that detects, blocks, and removes malware, viruses, and threats from Apple Mac computers. The pricing structure is not detailed in the provided information. It operates as a service and is intended for security professionals managing endpoint protection. The product has seen 16 releases in the tracked window.
Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS is endpoint security software that detects and removes malware, viruses, and threats on Apple computers.
How Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS helps
Is anything on this Mac currently infected with malware?
scans the filesystem and running processes and reports any matches against known malware, virus, and threat signatures
Is a file safe to open before running it?
checks the file against known threat signatures and reports whether it matches malware, a virus, or another known threat
Did a suspicious file get handled before it could do damage?
logs detected threats along with the action taken, so the file's fate can be confirmed after the fact
Is this Mac's protection current against newly discovered threats?
tracks the detection engine version installed and flags whether it lags behind the latest one released
Did an attribute-parsing crash lose detection coverage on a file this Mac touched?
records when the detection process itself failed while processing a file's extended attributes, distinguishing a missed scan from a clean one
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
Five scores for Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
Release-note detail over time
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Website history
sophos.com, every changeSophos's home page and 1 more page as they looked each month from September 2021 to October 2026: 12 renders, 3 changes of tagline or palette. Step through them, play them, or put any two months side by side.
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Rebranding timeline
Dates bound when a change appeared between captures. Possible rebrands are AI suggestions; a redesign alone does not establish a rebrand.
Releases
10 entries
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- October 20262
- September 20263
- February 20251
- May 20241
- February 20241
- September 20231
- August 20231
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