August 23rd Sophos Update Causes: 32-bit Outlook 2013, Internet Explorer, FireFox to not open in Windows 10

Question

The subject sums it up. Since yesterday's update, we noticing a consistent trend in our environment. Computers running Windows 10 are having issues opening Outlook 2013, IE and FF to not open after a Sophos update yesterday morning around 10:30 AM (EST.) 
 In the event viewer, checked why the applications are failing to open and it shows APPHANG, faulting module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\sophos_detoured.dll 
 
 The work-around has been to cut/paste both sophos_detoured.dll and sophos_detoured_x64.dll out of that folder. As soon as we do that the applications launch. This only started happening August 23rd morning. 
 
 Anyone have experience with this so far? I would have expected to see this on the forums already. 
 
 Thanks,

JoshMcCracken · Answer

Hey John, 
 
 Thanks for replying and confirming this issue is not just happening in our environment. 
 I've found a work-around which is to move or re-name the sophos_detoured.dll & sophos_detoured_x64.dll in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\ folder. 
 
 From what I've ready those dll files contribute to buffer overflow protection, so moving/renaming those dll's is not what I like to see as a permanent fix especially when there are massive amounts of systems that have this problem.