Sophos Users Heads-up

[Mike Kercher]

Strange.  I've been catching it all day:

Aug 19 10:45:45 genesis MailScanner[17564]: SophosSAVI using 40 IDE files 
Aug 19 10:45:55 genesis MailScanner[17570]: SophosSAVI 3.72 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 83542 viruses 


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Ulysees
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:06 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Sophos Users Heads-up


3.72 here, with latest updates as of a few minutes ago including a manually
added sobigf.ide and it still refuses to pick them up, even if I run sweep
on them manually. Thankfully they're being stripped by filename rules.

Uly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Thomas" <lists at STHOMAS.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Sophos Users Heads-up


> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:23:13PM +0100, Spicer, Kevin is rumored to 
> have
said:
> >
> > I've just noticed that my Sophos installation was not detecting 
> > Sobig-F (clam was though!) and it turns out that my Sophos install 
> > was out of date (3.69), however it still appeared to be updating 
> > because Sophos have left the zipfile for 3.69 on the website (but 
> > aren't updating it).
>
> 3.71 here - no problems detecting Sobig-F. Catching about 5-10 an hour
(only about 30 users).
>
>
> --
> "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
> - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
>