Sophos stuff

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
  I am running 3.75a with MS 4.24-5, Solaris 9.  Everything seems to be
working fine for me, auto-updates are working for me.

Jeff Earickson

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Martin Sapsed wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:02:06 +0000
> From: Martin Sapsed <m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Sophos stuff
>
> Hi all,
>
> 3 Sophos items to mention here.
>
> 1. Presume all Sophos users noticed in their Support news:
>
> Sophos Anti-Virus customers using all Mac, Linux and Unix platforms are
> advised that in some circumstances they may experience severe
> performance problems with version 3.75. This version is on the November
> CD and will arrive at customer offices from 1 November.
>
> The performance problems are related to the scanning of certain types of
> Adobe Acrobat files (.PDF) when embedded in HTML files. These
> performance problems are resolved in Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.75a,
> currently available for download from the Downloads and updates section.
>
>      * Sophos recommends that all Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac, Linux and
> Unix customers, who use Adobe Acrobat files (.PDF), do not install
> version 3.75 from the CD.
>
> Customers using these platforms should download and install version
> 3.75a from the Sophos web site.
>
> 2. The resultant vdl file vdl-3.75a.dat breaks autoupdate - I presume
> it's looking for a 375a_ides.zip ? Would this have worked if I had the
> new beta of MailScanner? Creating a link in the lib directory called
> vdl-375.dat permitted autoupdate to work again.
>
> 3. I offered and was accepted for the beta of a new version of
> Enterprise Manager which will allegedly be able to automatically update
> *ix copies of Sophos. Will let you know how I get on...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Sapsed
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>