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SEC 5.2.1 and Sophos for MAC OS X Preview (9.0.3)

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Decided to give the Preview of Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 9.0.3 a try. Chose an old MacBook (running 10.4) as guinea pig. After assigning the alternate policy updating failed with a rather vacuous Error: Could not update Sophos-Anti-Virus at .... Update failed. No indication of the nature or the error and surprisingly no indication of the update location used. 

Now, the error was not unexpected - 9.0.x requires MAC OS X 10.6 minimum but perhaps a more meaningful message could be issued. Anyway I checked the update location and found that it named ESCOSXL as source folder - obviously indicating the changed requirements (though I can't figure out what the L stands for :smileyhappy:).

Admittedly pre-10.6 versions should be rare by now (I've found two 10.5 installations still in use out of about 100). But the folder name change will affect unmanaged or occasionally off-site clients (yes, Cloud is the answer :smileywink:). I've found no reference though (I'd have expected this in the Release Notes). Even as it is Preview you should be required to discover this important information on your own.

Christian   

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    Hello Bob,

    thanks for the clarification. As said, IMO (3) doesn't really fit into a managed environment, can't say how significant it actually is.

    As you didn't address the 10.5- clients question I infer that one has to either stick with Version 8 (until April 2014 or the release of OS X 10.9 - whichever comes earlier) or set up the necessary subscriptions, policies and groups to allow for current and legacy clients, right?

    Christian

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    Hello Bob,

    thanks for the clarification. As said, IMO (3) doesn't really fit into a managed environment, can't say how significant it actually is.

    As you didn't address the 10.5- clients question I infer that one has to either stick with Version 8 (until April 2014 or the release of OS X 10.9 - whichever comes earlier) or set up the necessary subscriptions, policies and groups to allow for current and legacy clients, right?

    Christian

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