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- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/12/sophos_av_glitch/
12th July 2005
"A recent security update from Microsoft is tripping up users of Sophos's flagship anti-virus scanning software. Some enterprise users of Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) for Windows version 5 found their machines were taking up to 15 minutes to log on to the network after applying Microsoft's Update Rollup 1 for Win 2000 SP 4. Sophos has issued a workaround (removing C:\winnt\system32\mswsock.dll from on access scanning) pending the release of a more comprehensive fix.
David Mitchell, senior product manager at Sophos, said that because of the need to conduct comprehensive testing a patch for this and a similar "more intermittent" and less widespread glitch with SAV 5 may take a "few weeks". A second "slow startup issue" can leave Windows PCs running SAV 5 hanging for up to 30 minutes because of occasional conflicts with Windows 2000, XP and 2003. Sophos has issued a temporary workaround…."
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebas…ticle/3024.html
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/12/sophos_av_glitch/
12th July 2005
"A recent security update from Microsoft is tripping up users of Sophos's flagship anti-virus scanning software. Some enterprise users of Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) for Windows version 5 found their machines were taking up to 15 minutes to log on to the network after applying Microsoft's Update Rollup 1 for Win 2000 SP 4. Sophos has issued a workaround (removing C:\winnt\system32\mswsock.dll from on access scanning) pending the release of a more comprehensive fix.
David Mitchell, senior product manager at Sophos, said that because of the need to conduct comprehensive testing a patch for this and a similar "more intermittent" and less widespread glitch with SAV 5 may take a "few weeks". A second "slow startup issue" can leave Windows PCs running SAV 5 hanging for up to 30 minutes because of occasional conflicts with Windows 2000, XP and 2003. Sophos has issued a temporary workaround…."
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebas…ticle/3024.html