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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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    bobcook wrote:
    Carob wrote:

    For bobcook...

    I guess I have to ask for a status update on the replacement tool.  Is this still in the "thinking about" stage, "planning" stage, "development" stage?  Any stage?

    Version 9.2 will include a feature to pre-configure the On-Access Scanner settings. It will work in the same way as the feature allowing pre-configuration of Update settings (command line tool). That version will be available as Preview for on-premise warehouses either late July or early August, depending how smoothly the rest of the project goes. There will be a corresponding KBA available at the same time.

    A prerequisite to releasing 9.2 as Preview is to move 9.1 from Preview to Recommended, replacing 9.0. That will happen in July.

    You're talking about a client version 9.2, right?  If so I guess I'm confused.  Is a new tool built into the client then instead of being something stand-alone?

    Also, if I remember correctly, the command line tool still only allowed certain things to be configured and not all being requested (by myself and others it seemed), is that right?

    When there is a KBA on the subject would you post the number/link here?

    :51278
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    bobcook wrote:
    Carob wrote:

    For bobcook...

    I guess I have to ask for a status update on the replacement tool.  Is this still in the "thinking about" stage, "planning" stage, "development" stage?  Any stage?

    Version 9.2 will include a feature to pre-configure the On-Access Scanner settings. It will work in the same way as the feature allowing pre-configuration of Update settings (command line tool). That version will be available as Preview for on-premise warehouses either late July or early August, depending how smoothly the rest of the project goes. There will be a corresponding KBA available at the same time.

    A prerequisite to releasing 9.2 as Preview is to move 9.1 from Preview to Recommended, replacing 9.0. That will happen in July.

    You're talking about a client version 9.2, right?  If so I guess I'm confused.  Is a new tool built into the client then instead of being something stand-alone?

    Also, if I remember correctly, the command line tool still only allowed certain things to be configured and not all being requested (by myself and others it seemed), is that right?

    When there is a KBA on the subject would you post the number/link here?

    :51278
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