Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows: features in version 6.5.2 and 4.6.8
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.2, Sophos
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.2
The following features are included:
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT, version 4.6.8
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, version 4.6.8
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 4.8.8
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux, version 5.1.3
- The Sophos kernel interface module, Talpa, has been updated to support Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition. (32 and 64 bit, kernel 2.6)
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS, version 4.14
- Updated virus engine, version 2.42.3.
Features in virus engine, version 2.42.3
- Enhanced ability to scan the 'mbox' mailbox format so that individual messages can be extracted and scanned
- Added the ability to scan the mobile application 'SIS' file format
- Improved scanning of the 'delphi' format to enable Behavioral Genotype to extract more behavioral genes
- Improved engine stability in low memory conditions
- Added ability to scan files in Linux ELF format for the Tricore architecture
- Improved handling of unusual PDF files
- Improved performance when scanning Access database files
- Changed handling of CPIO files to ensure that certain unusual non-CPIO files are not incorrectly reported as corrupt CPIO files
- Improved handling of malformed OLE2 files
Further enhancements were included in Sophos Anti-Virus version 6.5.1, and the other previous versions.
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 22924
- Created: 24 Jan 2007
- Last updated: 5 Nov 2008
