Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows: features in version 6.5.1 and 4.6.7

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.1, Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/95/98/Me, version 4.6.7, and several other new versions of Sophos Anti-Virus, have been released on the Sophos databank and are being automatically distributed to existing customers via EM Library.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.1

The following features are included:

• Improved on-access scanning performance for computers with less than 256MB of RAM.
• Enhancement to ensure no user interaction required when downgrading involves a driver change on Windows 2000.
• Improved handling of applications with unknown subtype.
• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT, version 4.6.7

• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, version 4.6.7

• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 4.8.7

• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, version 5.1.2

• Adds support for SUSE Linux 10 and 10.1 (32 bit and 64 bit AMD64 compatible).
• Corrects an issue with installing from a CID containing a corporate configuration.
• Improved disinfection handling.
• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux, version 4.13

• Corrected man pages to refer to --reset-atime
• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS, version 4.13

• Updated virus engine, version 2.41.0.

Features in virus engine, version 2.41.0

• Improves scanning performance for self-extracting archives.
• Improves scanning efficiency when scanning registry entries.
• Ability to scan entire HTML file where necessary to identify new HTML exploits.
• Adds scanning for PPMd compression file type.
• Improved handling of mis-classified help files.
• Fixes an issue that could cause an engine crash with a malformed pdf file.
• Fixes an issue that caused certain msi files to be incorrectly identified as corrupt.

Further enhancements were included in Sophos Anti-Virus version 6.5.0, and the other previous versions.