Email Vulnerabilities

[Julian Field]

At 09:32 24/09/2002, you wrote:
>Sophos anti-virus must be updated at least every three months either
>from the file on the CD sent to you or by downloading it from the
>Sophos website. This message is a warning that your copy of Sophos
>more than 3 months old and it *will not* detect the latest viruses.
>
>See:
>
>http://www.sophos.com/support/faqs/ide.html#3.3
>3.3. Why doesn't Sophos supply virus identities (IDEs) for versions
>of Sophos Anti-Virus more than three months old?

Partly to save themselves lots of work creating zip files of IDE files all
day, and also to ensure that "evaluation" versions really do expire
eventually. The evaluation licence is for 30 days, but you can't stretch it
beyond 3 months as you can't get updated IDE files after that.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ