Daily Supplemental IDE files

Daily Supplementals are special virus identity (IDE) files that provide protection against batches of low-profile threats that have not yet been seen in the wild. Daily Supplementals are prefixed 'DS' and identified in a 'yymmdd' date format, for example: DS060712 would be used for a Daily Supplemental issued on 12 July 2006.

Protection against the threats included in the Daily Supplemental files will also still be bundled into the monthly updates.

In the past, all of these low-profile threats were grouped together and released monthly. Daily Supplementals enable us to make identities for these threats available to customers more frequently. This gives complete protection against threats that are not yet in the wild.

• Email alerts
• Technical details

Email alerts for Daily Supplementals

Email alerts for Daily Supplementals will be in a similar format to existing IDE alert emails:

Title:

Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: DS060712

Text:

Name: DS060712
Type: Daily Supplemental IDE
Date: 12 July 2006

Sophos has issued this Daily Supplemental to protect against batches
of low-profile threats that have yet to be seen in the wild.

Customers using EM Library, Enterprise Console, PureMessage or any of
our Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at
their next scheduled update.

Information about DS060712 can be found at:

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/ds060712.html

Customers with 4.0x or lower versions of Sophos Anti-Virus,
who are not running EM Library, can manually download this Daily
Supplemental IDE from:

http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ds060712.ide

Read more about Daily Supplementals at

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/5406.html

Read about how to use IDE files at

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/363.html

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Technical details

The protection that we provide against low-profile viruses, worms and Trojans has always been passed on to customers in the monthly VDL file. The introduction of Daily Supplementals provides protection more pro-actively.

Daily Supplementals also safeguard customers against low-volume targeted attacks, which are becoming more common.

If any of the threats included in the Daily Supplemental is subsequently found in the wild, a full description of that threat will be released.