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Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

Hi,

We are currently looking into migrating to another anti-virus solution, could you confrim if the Sophos Anti-Virus software will stop running altogether at the end of March or if it will continue to run but not receive any new definition updates?

Just trying to confrim if we will still have some form of anti-virus protection in place during this migration.

Cheers!

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  • Hello Caseh,

    We are currently looking into migrating to another anti-virus solution

    May I ask why you want to migrate? Are you dissatisfied with the product or a certain aspect?

    As for retirement: The product will continue to work past the retirement date. Just checking the Software lifecycle page it looks like the date for 7.x has been postponed as I see 13 May 2011. Anyway - while some form of protection is better than none at all I recommend against running without current updates. Does your license expire in the next weeks? Otherwise it's probably better to upgrade even if it's only for a few months (and who knows, perhaps you'll fall in love again :smileywink:). If this isn't feasible - in terms of protection you should seriously consider some freeware interim solution instead of running with an outdated product.

    Christian

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  • Hi,

    Thanks for the speedy responce.

    We are happy with the product as it stands however we have just become Microsoft Gold partners which entitles us to a set number of free licenses for an install of Forefront.

    We are just getting to grips with it but looking at the server requirements and additional components to get it fully operational this beast is growing at an expenential rate lol.

    We may just upgrade and extend our licenses but were just curious as to whether or not Sophos would keel over and die on the 31st of March. :D

    Thanks for the info. :smileyhappy:

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