Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows: features in version 6.0.4 and 4.6.4
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.0.4, and Sophos
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.0.4
- Fixes an issue that caused on-access scanning to be disabled when upgrading from Sophos
Anti-Virus for Windows version 4.xx on French and German installations. - The new Sophos Remote Management System (RMS), version 2.1.3, corrects an issue that caused routers to restart with an exception on Windows XP machines when an advanced configuration was set to display DNS suffixes in DNS lookup.
- New Sophos AutoUpdate, version 2.0.3.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT, version 4.6.4
- Improved ability to disinfect files when filenames are truncated.
- New Sophos AutoUpdate, version 2.0.3.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, version 4.6.4
- Corrected error handling when presented with incorrect NetWare user account details.
- New Sophos AutoUpdate, version 2.0.3.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 4.8.4
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, version 5.0.9
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for NetWare, version 4.10
- Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux, version 4.10
- Corrects an issue handling unresolved symbols on Solaris/Intel.
- In addition, new packages will be added to the Sophos databank (es-central2) to enable customers to use EM Library to automatically update Sophos
Anti-Virus for UNIX on additional platforms: HPUX Ia64, Linux AMD64, FreeBSD 5.2 and FreeBSD 6 (AMD64). - Updated virus engine, version 2.38.2.
Features in virus engine, version 2.38.2
- Includes the ability to detect using generic rules that look for behavioral and other characteristics that have only ever been seen combined in malicious code. These new malicious behavior identities are prefixed Mal/.
- Improvements to memory utilisation by improvement of the format for storing identity names, types, sub types, and revision numbers, and by simplifying the internal structure of the data.
- Improvements to handling of OLE2 streams to improve the ability to detect new exploits.
- Corrects an issue affecting quarantining of Mac format files in PureMessage Windows/Exchange.
Features in Sophos AutoUpdate version 2.0.3
- Corrects an issue that in some circumstances caused cached user credentials to be overwritten.
- Improves trace file recording in log files.
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- Article ID: 17335
- Created: 22 Sep 2006
- Last updated: 26 Oct 2006
