Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows: features in version 6.5.3 and 4.6.9
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.3, Sophos
This is a large update, up to 16.5 MB. The following features are included.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 6.5.3
- New version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.1
- Corrects an error causing an incorrect date to be reported under 'last scheduled scan completed' in Enterprise Console
- Now reports the names of infected files found within an archive
- Corrects an issue causing focus to be lost when running with 'screenagent'
- Corrects an issue causing certain events to be logged in the incorrect language
- Works around an issue in Windows Vista that caused the progress window for a right-click scan not to come to the foreground when UAC is enabled
- Improves error messages in Italian and Chinese
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT, version 4.6.9
- Includes new version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.1
- Enables customers using older versions of Sophos Anti-Virus on backup domain controllers to upgrade to the latest version
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, version 4.6.9
- Includes new version of Sophos AutoUpdate, 2.1.1
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 4.8.9
- Includes a new version of RMS that fixes an issue causing the router to restart with an unknown exception in certain circumstances
- Improves scanning performance for very large (>4GB) files
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0.
Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux, version 4.15
- Adds support for FreeBSD version 6 on Intel
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Netware, version 4.15
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.1
Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS, version 4.15
- Updated virus engine, version 2.43.0
Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, version 5.2.0
This will be a large update, aproximately 55 MB, and will be released on the Sophos databanks, week commencing 4 March 2007
- Adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
- Includes a new version of the Talpa kernel intercept module, version 1.2
- Adds support for kernel versions 2.6.18, 2.6.19, 2.6.20
- Improved scanning performance for cached files
Features in virus engine, version 2.43.0
- Improved handling of corrupt CAB files
- Improved ability to unpack certain RAR files
- Improved handling of corrupt SIS files
Further enhancements were included in Sophos Anti-Virus version 6.5.2, and the other previous versions.
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 23400
- Created: 22 Feb 2007
- Last updated: 23 Feb 2007
