Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows: features in version 6.5.0 and 4.6.6
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.0, Sophos
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.0
This is a large update (around 30 MB). The following features are included:
- New version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.0.
- It updates automatically from version 6.0.5.
- Support added for the RTM version of Microsoft Windows Vista.
- Includes support for Microsoft Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WePOS).
- Improves scanning performance on computers with less than 256MB of RAM.
- Fixes an issue causing an occasional abort of the SAV32CLI command line scanner.
- Enhancements to cleanup process to ensure that installers and applications are handled efficiently when reboots are required.
- Enables more frequent updates for PureMessage for Windows/Exchange.
- Ensures that if Sophos AutoUpdate is uninstalled and reinstalled, Sophos Client Firewall still updates correctly.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.40.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT, version 4.6.6
- Includes new version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.0.
- Reduced RAM usage through more efficient virus data loading.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.40.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, version 4.6.6
- Includes new version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.0.
- Reduced RAM usage through more efficient virus data loading.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.40.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 4.8.6
- Changed format of email alerts to strictly comply with MIME RFC.
- Corrected an issue that caused old .IDE files to not be removed following an updated, resulting in an incorrect IDE count.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, version 5.1.1
- Adds support for Novell Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit and 64-bit AMD64 compatible). Note: Talpa binary packs may come later.
- Updated virus engine, version 2.40.2.
Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux, version 4.12
- Fixes an issue that was causing the virus data to take much longer to load when an initiating a scan.
Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS, version 4.12
- Fixes an issue that was causing the virus data to take much longer to load when an initiating a scan.
Features in virus engine, version 2.40.2
- Adds support for scanning of Office 12 (Microsoft Office 2007) file formats.
- Improved handling of malformed CHM, RAR and CPIO files.
- SAV Interface object initialization has been adjusted to ensure that configurations are preserved when multiple objects are initiated.
Further enhancements were included in Sophos Anti-Virus version 6.0.5, and the other previous versions.
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 17785
- Created: 20 Nov 2006
- Last updated: 7 Dec 2006
