Due to Sophos Updating Infrastructure changes and a number of enhancements in the May maintenance release, customers running Endpoint Security and Control 10 should be aware systems may require a reboot or receive a larger than usual download.
Endpoint Security v. 10.0.2 will be released commencing late February - early March 2012. This will be an automatic update for Endpoint Security and Control customers, and will include fixes for several outstanding issues.
Endpoint Security v. 10.0.1 will be released commencing January 2012. This will be an automatic update for Endpoint Security and Control customers, and will include fixes for several outstanding issues.
You are not able to install Sophos Mobile Control (SMC) 1.1 on devices where the operating system was updated to iOS 5. The device displays the error 'Download failed. Safari cannot download this file.'
If you install SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 will no longer start. Instead the computer boots up into the Mac OS X Recovery partition.
Under certain specific circumstances, it is possible to accidentally overwrite the key value of an existing LAN Crypt key when you are making changes to the key. This will mean that the key will no longer be able to decrypt files. We have released a patch which you should install in order to avoid the possibility of this occurring
A bug has been identified in a component of the application control data delivered in the 4.62 release, during week commencing 31 January 2011. This has now been fixed.
Sophos is planning to make changes to the existing Application Control categories. This change will take place with the Endpoint Security and Control v 9.5x update due for release in late March/early April 2011.
The following issue was seen for a short period between 26/27 October 2010. It has now been resolved. Sophos Update Manager (SUM) failed to update from 'Sophos'. Errors were displayed in Enterprise Console.
We are incorporating a driver update and an LSP (Layered Service Protocol) update into the version 9.5.4 Endpoint Security and Control update due for release in late October/early November 2010. For these updates to take effect you will need to reboot endpoint computers.
Following the October update, Enterprise Console is reporting three Application Control data components in two categories each, one of which is incorrect.
We are incorporating a driver update and an LSP (Layered Service Protocol) update into the version 9.5.4 Endpoint Security and Control update due for release in late October/early November 2010. For these updates to take effect you will need to reboot endpoint computers.
If you are currently running Endpoint Security with Enterprise Console v 4 or Sophos Small Business with Sophos Control Center v 4, your version of Sophos Anti-Virus will be automatically updated to version 9.5.4 in November.
Sophos has discovered an issue that occurs on several Dell Models of the Latitude 'D' Series computers running Windows 7 or Windows Vista in conjunction with SafeGuard Enterprise or SafeGuard Easy versions 5.50.1. This problem has not been experienced on any Windows XP SP3 system.
Version 4.59 of the virus data files, scheduled for release in November 2010, will be a large update, possibly up to 45 MB. This update will apply to all Sophos Anti-Virus customers.
We are incorporating a driver update and an LSP (Layered Service Protocol) update into the version 9.5.4 Endpoint Security and Control update due for release in late October/early November 2010. For these updates to take effect you will need to reboot endpoint computers.
To solve the BIOS issues on DELL Exx10 computers that our customers may be experiencing, Sophos has changed the way hotkeys must be applied at Power on Authentication (POA) level.
SafeGuard Enterprise - Sophos has released a patch for an API synchronization issue that may cause the wrong domain NetBIOS name to be entered in the database. This issue has been seen in SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50.0.116 Management Center/Server.
This article explains what to do if you have one or more Linux computers updating from another Linux computer's local cache. Known to apply to the following Sophos products and versions: Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux 7.1.0
With the release of Endpoint Security and Control version 9.0.5 (April 2010) and Sophos Anti-Virus version 7.6.20 (May 2010) we are changing the way in which version numbers are applied to monthly updates.
We are incorporating a new driver into the June update of Sophos Anti-Virus, v 7.6.20. (The June update is released in late May 2010.) This will be an automatic update for Endpoint Security and Control customers, and will include a new driver and fixes for several outstanding issues. For this update to take effect, you will need to reboot endpoint computers.
Sophos has released a hotfix for the issue described below which has been found in SafeGuard Enterprise 5.40.0.152 Management Center and SafeGuard Enterprise 5.40.0.152 Server. It is recommended that you apply this as soon as possible in order to prevent this issue from occurring.
When opening the PureMessage Administration console the following error is returned: 'Error retrieving data from the server. Ensure server / database is started and try again. System.NullReferenceException. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'
This article describes a malformed archive file bypass vulnerability within the Sophos products that use the Sophos Anti-Virus detection engine. There are no known-in-the-wild exploits of this vulnerability at the time of publication. Applies to: Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+ (version 7.6.7 and below) Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/95/98 (version 4.7.22 and below) Sophos Anti-Virus for OS X (version 4.9.22/7.01 and below) Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX (version 7.0.9 and below) Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux (version 6.6.2 and below) Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX and Netware (version 4.41.9 and below) Sophos Email Appliance (version 3.1.3.1 and below) Sophos Web Appliance (version 2.1.18 and below) PureMessage for UNIX (version 5.5.4 and below)
Email alerting on Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X does not work on version 10.5.7 of the Mac OS X operating system. This version was released by Apple on 13 May 2009. Threats will continue to be detected and reported by Enterprise Console as usual.
For the updates to take effect, you will need to reboot endpoint computers. In this release, we have suppressed endpoint reboot requests by default, so that requests will only be sent to Enterprise Console.