Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 10.3 Cloud release notes
December 2014
About these release notes
These are the release notes for Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 10.3 for Windows, managed by Sophos Cloud.
Some of the features mentioned in these release notes are only available if you have the appropriate license.
For improvements and new features in the Sophos Cloud console, see What's new in Sophos Cloud.
Release 1.0.237
First released: December 1, 2014
Components
| Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) | 10.3.12.89 |
| Threat detection engine | 3.55.0 |
| Sophos AutoUpdate (SAU) | 4.1.0 |
| Sophos Device Control | 10.3.12 |
| Sophos Web Control | 10.3.10 |
| Sophos Management Communications System (MCS) | 1.5.8 |
Updated components
- Sophos Anti-Virus updated from 10.3.11.20 to 10.3.12.89.
- Sophos AutoUpdate updated from 4.0.5 to 4.1.0.
- Sophos Device Control updated from 10.3.11 to 10.3.12.
- Sophos Management Communications System updated from 1.5.6 to 1.5.8.
Resolved issues
| Component | Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sophos Anti-Virus, Sophos Web Control | Web browsing speed improvements when using Sophos Web Control or Web Protection. | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | WKI97820 | Resolved compatibility issues between Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) "Caller Check" and Sophos hooks. |
| Sophos Management Communications System | SUG93252 | From now on, transient communication "502" errors are no longer being logged in the Application Event Log. |
Release 1.0.205
First released: September 17, 2014
Components
| Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) | 10.3.11.20 |
| Threat detection engine | 3.55.0 |
| Sophos AutoUpdate (SAU) | 4.0.5 |
| Sophos Device Control | 10.3.11 |
| Sophos Web Control | 10.3.10 |
| Sophos Management Communications System (MCS) | 1.5.6 |
Updated components
- Sophos AutoUpdate updated from 4.0.0 to 4.0.5.
- Sophos Management Communications System updated from 1.5.5 to 1.5.6.
Resolved issues
| Component | Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sophos AutoUpdate | KB121385 | Fixed an installation and upgrade issue that occurred on Windows Server 2003 following the release of Microsoft Security Update KB2918614. |
| Sophos Management Communications System | Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are now correctly reported to the Cloud console. |
Release 1.0.193
First released: September 3, 2014
Components
| Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) | 10.3.11.20 |
| Threat detection engine | 3.55.0 |
| Sophos AutoUpdate (SAU) | 4.0.0.93 |
| Sophos Device Control | 10.3.11 |
| Sophos Web Control | 10.3.10 |
| Sophos Management Communications System (MCS) | 1.5.5 |
New features
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Sophos Anti-Virus | The threat detection engine has been updated. |
| Sophos Device Control | The following devices have been added to the list of secure removable storage
devices:
|
| Sophos Device Control | Intel Centrino Wireless Bluetooth Adapter has been added to the list of bluetooth interfaces. |
Resolved issues
| Component | Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sophos Anti-Virus | DEF92713 | Fixed: Slow startup on a Windows 8 tablet. |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | DEF88319 | Fixed: Email alerting settings for right-click scanning do not change when the global email alerting settings are changed. |
Known issues and limitations
| Component | Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sophos Anti-Virus | DEF84420 | If you use a browser's Windows 8 Modern UI application to access a malicious website, and you click the toast that Sophos Anti-Virus displays, the browser is minimized and the desktop is displayed instead. To switch back to the browser, press Alt+Tab. |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | DEF83463 | Although Sophos Anti-Virus can scan files that are locked during an on-demand scan, it cannot perform cleanup successfully. |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | DEF79482 | iSCSI mount points cannot be excluded from on-access scanning. |
| Sophos Anti-Virus, Sophos Web Control | - | Sophos web protection and web control use a Layered Service Provider (LSP) to intercept network traffic. If web protection or web control is turned on while an incompatible third-party LSP is running, system instability can occur. Therefore, if a third-party LSP that is known to be incompatible is already installed on the computer, the Sophos LSP is not installed. For more information, see http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/116241.aspx. |
Additional information
System requirements
Sophos Endpoint Security and Control is supported on Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012. For a full list of system requirements, see System Requirements for Antivirus protection for Windows.
Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
- On Windows 8, Endpoint Security and Control uses toast notifications instead of balloon notifications to display messages on screen.
- On Windows 8, if you specify a user-defined message to be displayed in desktop messages, it is not displayed in toasts. For more information, see http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118233.aspx.
- On Windows 8, if Sophos Anti-Virus cleans up a threat that affects a Windows Store app, it marks the app as tampered with. This causes Windows to offer the user the ability to re-download and re-install the app.
- Rootkit scanning is not supported on REFS file systems on Windows Server 2012. If the user attempts a rootkit scan on this file system, a message will be logged in the SAV log telling them that rootkit scanning is not supported.
Sophos Device Control
Sophos Device Control does not block removable storage devices that are used as system drives, as this typically destabilizes the operating system.
Shared Windows components
When you install Sophos software, some Windows components that might also be used by non-Sophos software are also installed or upgraded:
| Sophos software | Shared Windows component | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | File names | Versions | Date of inclusion with Sophos software | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | Microsoft XML Core Services | msxml4.dll | 4.30.2100.0 | September 2009 |
| msxml4r.dll | 4.30.2100.0 | September 2009 | ||
| ATL Library | atl90.dll | 9.0.30729.4148 | June 2013 | |
| Microsoft Visual C/C++ Runtime Libraries | msvcm90.dll | 9.0.30729.4148 | June 2013 | |
| msvcp90.dll | 9.0.30729.4148 | June 2013 | ||
| msvcr90.dll | 9.0.30729.4148 | June 2013 | ||
| Sophos AutoUpdate | Windows Installer | msi.dll | 2.0.2600.2 | November 2003 |
| msiexec.exe | 2.0.2600.2 | November 2003 | ||
| msihnd.dll | 2.0.2600.2 | November 2003 | ||
| msimain.sdb | N/a | November 2003 | ||
| msimsg.dll | 2.0.2600.2 | November 2003 | ||
| msisip.dll | 2.0.2600.2 | November 2003 | ||
| msls31.dll | 3.10.337.0 | November 2003 | ||
| mspatcha.dll | 5.1.2600.0 | November 2003 | ||
| riched20.dll | 5.30.23.1200 | November 2003 | ||
| sdbapiU.dll | 1.0.0.1 | November 2003 | ||
| shfolder.dll | 5.0.2919.20 | November 2003 | ||
| usp10.dll | 1.325.2180.1 | November 2003 | ||
Technical support
You can find technical support in any of these ways:
- In the Sophos Cloud console, click the Support link on the top right of the console.
- Visit the SophosTalk community at community.sophos.com/ and search for other users who are experiencing the same problem.
- Visit the Sophos support knowledgebase at www.sophos.com/en-us/support.aspx.
- Download the product documentation at www.sophos.com/en-us/support/documentation/.
- Open a ticket with our support team at https://secure2.sophos.com/support/contact-support/support-query.aspx.
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