Sophos VRT update

Question

I have same issue as AnnMoriaty. I have downloaded Sophos VRT several times since I got the "expired" message. I have used Regedit to clear all mentions of Sophos. No matter what I do, once I have reinstalled from the latest download, the same message appears telling me product has expired. Very annoying.

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BenjaminLindner · Answer

That's a small "misalignment" on Sophos' side. They current version is 2.5.0.0, and that's what you have installed. There will be a new release by the end of this month. That is by schedule. Because of that, this expiration date is built-in into SVRT. Since it has reached this date, and a new version SHOULD be available by now, it shows you that alert. Meaning, it's not that the software checked and found a new version and is letting you know. It didn't check and didn't find a new version. It's just by schedule, and a new version is NOT yet available. 
 
 In short, check for a new version in another 2 weeks. Until then, use SVRT and disregard the warning.

BenjaminLindner · Answer

FYI, the new version is now available for download. They put it up last Thursday. They forgot one thing, which might confuse you. After you download the installation file, if you check its properties, it says that its version is 2.5.5.0. They forgot to update that. But it actually installs v2.5.6. You can also see that this file is a different size than the 2.5.5.0 installation file. That was 149MB, and this one is 143.7MB. 
 Before installing the new version, you'll need to uninstall the existing v2.5.5.0