Software retirement table
Use this table to ensure that your protection is always up to date and fully supported. Over time, versions of our products will be retired, and Sophos Anti-Virus and PureMessage support for some operating systems will end.
Products
Sophos Anti-Virus supportThese products are nearing the end of their lifecycle.
End of life is the date when all updates to protection and support will end.
Upgrade lists the product to which you should upgrade to ensure that your protection stays up to date and fully supported.
Upgrade required
We will stop support and updates to protection on 30 May 2008 for:
- Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v6
- EM Library 1.3
- Enterprise Console 2
It is vital for customers to upgrade their protection.
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Products End of life Free upgrade Small business solutions Small Business Suite 1.x RETIRED
30 April 2007Sophos Security Suite SBE 2.x Sophos Anti-Virus SBE 1.x RETIRED
30 April 2007Sophos Anti-Virus SBE 2.x Sophos PureMessage SBE 2.5.1 RETIRED
30 April 2007PureMessage for Microsoft/Exchange 3.0 Enterprise solutions Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, v4.1x RETIRED
28 Feb 2007Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v7
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT 4.7Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003, v5 RETIRED
30 June 2007Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v7 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v6 30 May 2008 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v7 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v6, + Application Control RETIRED
31 Oct 2007Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v7 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, v7 To be decided, but no sooner than 31 March 2010 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, v4.1x RETIRED
28 Feb 2007Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, v4.7 Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98/Me, v4.x 31 Dec 2008 No upgrade. Product discontinued. Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT4, v4.x 31 Dec 2008 No upgrade. Product discontinued. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS 8/9, v4.1x RETIRED
28 Feb 2007If you've upgraded to Mac OS X,
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS XSophos Anti-Virus for OS/2 RETIRED
31 Dec 2007No upgrade. Product discontinued. Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux v5 RETIRED
31 Aug 2007Upgrade options Sophos Anti-Virus for DOS/Windows 3.1x RETIRED
31 July 2007No upgrade. Product discontinued. Sophos Client Firewall 1.0.1 RETIRED
31 Oct 2007Sophos Client Firewall 1.5 EM Library 1.1 RETIRED
28 Feb 2007EM Library 1.3.2 EM Library 1.2 RETIRED
30 June 2007EM Library 1.3.2 EM Library 1.3 30 May 2008 EM Library 1.3.2 EM Library 1.3.x To be decided, but no sooner than 31 March 2010 Enterprise Console 1 RETIRED
30 June 2007Enterprise Console 3 Enterprise Console 2 30 May 2008 Enterprise Console 3 Enterprise Console 3 To be decided, but no sooner than 31 March 2010 SAVAdmin RETIRED
28 Feb 2007Enterprise Console 3 Remote Update RETIRED
28 Feb 2007EM Reporter 1.0 RETIRED
28 Feb 2007Enterprise Console 3 PureMessage for UNIX 4 RETIRED
31 March 2007PureMessage for UNIX 5 PureMessage for Windows/Exchange 2.6 (Enterprise version only) 1 Oct 2008 PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 PureMessage for Windows/Exchange 2.6 (Enterprise version only) 1 Oct 2008 PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 PureMessage for Windows/Exchange 2.5 RETIRED
19 Sept 2007PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 MailMonitor for Notes/Domino RETIRED
31 Dec 2007PureMessage for Notes/Domino MailMonitor for Exchange RETIRED
31 Dec 2007PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 MailMonitor for SMTP (UNIX) 31 Dec 2008 MailMonitor for SMTP (Windows) 31 Dec 2008 PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0
*Upgrade is not free.
