Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

Published on 17th December 2010 12:48 PM

Before March, if Sophos is to continue to protect your networks, and you are running version 7.5 a major version upgrade is required from 7.5 – 9.5.

7.5 will be discontinued from March onwards

Products Affected:

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 7.x
EM Library 1.3.x
Enterprise Console 3.x
Sophos Control Center 2.x

The desktop message will read:

Sophos Anti-Virus 7, EM Library and Sophos Control Center will be retired at the end of March 2011. You should upgrade computers running these products so that your network continues to be protected.

Messages will appear on all computers from the start of January 2011.

To turn off these messages and to learn more about the retirement, visit Sophos support knowledgebase article .

Full KB Article Regarding this can be found here: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowle...le/112120.html

James.

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9 Comments

SYSMAN_MK - 17th December 2010, 01:51 PM

Here is the reg setting to disable the message on clients in the meantime.
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application]
"DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"=dword:00000001

round2it - 17th December 2010, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by SYSMAN_MK

Here is the reg setting to disable the message on clients in the meantime.

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application] "DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"=dword:00000001
what is the easiest way to push this setting out?
an example of a startup script would be great

or can it be done via gpo?

any help would be great

PcDude - 17th December 2010, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by round2it

what is the easiest way to push this setting out?
an example of a startup script would be great

or can it be done via gpo?

any help would be great

The article mentions how to push out the change to all clients using the share that they update from. That may be the easiest way.
Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

numericspark - 13th January 2011, 03:48 PM
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I have created an adm file to do this through group policy, just copy and paste the below into notepad and save as a .adm

CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY "Sophos"

POLICY "Disable Sophos Expiry Msg"

KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application"
EXPLAIN "This policy disables the expiration of sophos 7 messages"
VALUENAME "DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0

END POLICY

END CATEGORY

browolf - 17th January 2011, 04:04 PM
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that adm didn't work for me. I used reg2adm to remake it and got this instead, which does work:

CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService
POLICY Application
KEYNAME SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application
PART DisableEndOfLifeMessaging NUMERIC
VALUENAME "DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY

TechSupp - 17th January 2011, 08:12 PM
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Sorry if this is a bit of a simpletons question but what do I do with the adm file in AD. At home at moment so cant have a look. Presume I just import it from the File menu and it then affects all users or do I have to do it with individual GPO's?

round2it - 17th January 2011, 08:35 PM
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i just ran the reg setting to imported with a startup script seems to have worked no messages been displayed.

TechSupp - 17th January 2011, 08:40 PM
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How did you run the reg setting with a startup script, any chance of a copy of the script?

themightymrp - 2nd February 2011, 09:52 AM
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Example script if the above is saved as sophosmsg.reg

regedit /s \\domain\netlogon\sophosmsg.reg

Easy as pie