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
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.
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 22186
- Created: 20 Dec 2006
- Last updated: 20 Dec 2006
