Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux release notes ----------------------------------------- Product version : 6.3.5 Threat detection engine version : 2.75.4 Threat data version : 4.31, July 2008 www.sophos.com Contents -------- New in this version Known problems Additional information Information from previous versions New in this version ------------------- * (SUG 22613, SUG 22556) This version supports the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 kernels, including PAE kernels. * (DEF 21716) If you run Sophos Anti-Virus on a computer with a Japanese locale, and you use the command savconfig to query the value of a boolean parameter, the value is now displayed using the correct Japanese characters. * The threat detection engine and threat data have been updated. Known problems -------------- * Parameter ScanArchives not set unless you include operator "set" (DEF 19553) If you use the command savconfig to set the value of the parameter ScanArchives, the value is not set unless you include the operator "set". For example, type: /opt/sophos-av/bin/savconfig set ScanArchives enabled * Desktop pop-up alerts not displayed on Red Hat version 5 64 bit (DEF 18916) On Red Hat version 5 64 bit, desktop pop-up alerts are not displayed. To fix this problem, install libXpm-3.5.5-3.i386.rpm. This file is needed by desktop pop-up alerts but is not installed by default by Red Hat 5. * End-User Licence Agreement display on Red Hat 2.1 with ja_JP.eucJP encoding (CR 24512) Due to a limitation of the more utility, the End-User Licence Agreement cannot display correctly in Japanese on Red Hat 2.1 computers that are using ja_JP.eucJP encoding. In such cases, the agreement is displayed in English. You can also see the copy on the Sophos website: www.sophos.com/legal/eula.html. * On-demand scanner requires new session in order to work if RPM distribution package is used for installation (CR 26892) If Sophos Anti-Virus is installed using the RPM distribution package that is created by mkinstpkg.sh, the on-demand scanner (savscan) requires a new session to be invoked before it will work. * Parameters based on file type do not work with newer version of libmagic (CR 23881) Configuration parameters that are based on file type do not work on distributions that use the newer libmagic 4.17, such as Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE Enterprise 10, and SUSE 10.2 and later. The following parameters are based on file type: ExcludeFilesLike AllowIfCorrupt AllowIfEncrypted AllowIfMultiVolumeArchive ExcludeFileOnType * Desktop pop-up alerts not displayed correctly on Asianux when using unsupported locale (CR 21865) Desktop pop-up alerts in unsupported locales (zh_CN.UTF-8: Traditional Chinese and Korean) on Japanese installations of Asianux are displayed using identifiers (for example, VIRUS_FOUND_IN_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) rather than the corresponding English text. For technical support, visit www.sophos.com/support. If you contact technical support, provide as much information as possible, including the following: * Sophos software version number(s) * Operating system(s) and patch level(s) * The exact text of any error messages Additional information ---------------------- Some descriptions include the relevant identifier in brackets. You can use this if you need to contact Sophos technical support. * Sophos Anti-Virus and PureMessage for UNIX If you install Sophos Anti-Virus on a mail server that is running Sophos PureMessage for UNIX, you must make sure that scanning of MIME files is disabled in Sophos Anti-Virus. This is because scanning MIME files with Sophos Anti-Virus might prevent PureMessage from accessing files that contain viruses. By default, MIME scanning is disabled. * Installation in non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII encoded locations You can't install Sophos Anti-Virus in a location that is specified by a non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII path. * Installation on computers using non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII encoding On a computer that is using non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII encoding, to install from the distribution package that is created by mkinstpkg.sh, run the installation script as follows: LANG=C ./sophos-av/install.sh * Japanese language support Sophos Anti-Virus can be installed on computers that are using ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.UTF8. Installation on computers with ja_JP.sjis locale (Japanese with Shift-JIS encoding) is not supported. * mkinstpkg.sh restricts choice of http port for Sophos Anti-Virus GUI If you run mkinstpkg.sh on a computer on which the Sophos Anti-Virus GUI is running, the script doesn't allow you to select the standard http port for the GUI. To work around this, disable the GUI before you run mkinstpkg.sh, as follows: /etc/init.d/sav-web stop * Remote Management Service doesn't start if Sophos Anti-Virus has been installed from NFS filesystem If you install Sophos Anti-Virus from an NFS filesystem, the Remote Management Service won't start. To work around this, use an alternative installation source instead, for example a Samba share. Information from previous versions ---------------------------------- 6.3.4 * (SUG 21385, DEF 21069) This version supports Ubuntu version 8.04 LTS and includes Sophos kernel interface module (Talpa) binary packs for TurboLinux Server version 10 64 bit. * (DEF 21377) This version includes a fix for a problem with the script mkinstpkg.sh. Previously, if you ran this with the command-line option -r, and it could not find a 32 bit version of zlib, it failed. * (DEF 21427) MIME scanning has been improved. 6.3.3 * This version includes a new version of the Sophos kernel interface module, Talpa (1.5.2). This fixes a problem with accessing some FUSE filesystems, and provides support for kernel version 2.6.25, provided that ro-data is disabled in the kernel. To disable ro-data, in the kernel configuration program, in the "Kernel hacking" section, use the option "Write protect kernel read-only data structures". * (DEF 20143) You can now set the username and password of the update source proxy server using savsetup. 6.3.2 * (DEF 17646) Virus/spyware email alerts now include the time in a more user- friendly format. * (DEF 19064) This version includes a fix for a problem whereby Sophos Anti-Virus sometimes failed to notify Sophos Enterprise Console that it had detected a threat. This happened if the name of the virus or item of spyware was enclosed in quotation marks. * (DEF 19299) This version includes a fix for a problem whereby the on-access scanner was sometimes unable to locate the magic database.