problems with sophos autoupdate

[Domingo Genaro P. Tamayo]

Hi,

Got the same problem. Im running Sophos 3.53. Visited the Sophos Site
yesterday, and it states there:
"3.3. Why doesn't Sophos supply virus identities (IDEs) for versions of
Sophos Anti-Virus more than three months old?Sophos recommends that you upgrade Sophos Anti-Virus whenever there is a
new release. Currently this is monthly. During any three month period
Sophos will have analysed many hundreds of new viruses. Some of these will
probably require updates to the scanning technology, often because there
are changes in the kind of objects that viruses can infect, e.g. new
Microsoft Office file formats. Sophos cannot offer technical support to
customers who are not using an up-to-date version of Sophos Anti-Virus for
this reason."
--http://www.sophos.com/support/faqs/ide.html#3.3

Is this the reason?

Thanks. Thanks for mailscanner.

> Hi,
>
> My Sophos 3.57 got out of date, so decided to install 3.59 and also
> upgraded my Mailscanner to 3.22-10
>
> All works fine, but i get error when i'm trying to download ide files
> using mailscanner's autoupdate for sophos {noticed that sophos don't
> provide any update script with their virus scanner}
>
> Could not calculate Sophos version number, Bad file descriptor at
> ./autoupdate line 77.
>
> Line 77
> warn "@_, $!";
>
> Sophos installed in /usr/local/Sophos dir
>
> Thanks.