Users warned on Sophos antivirus flaw
Sophos is advising customers to upgrade their antivirus applications after a flaw was found in an old version of the security firm’s software.
The vulnerability was highlighted on the Bugtraq mailing list, and concerns how a potentially infected file could be hidden on a hard drive without being scanned by Sophos’ software.
One of the dangers is that, after a reboot, the infected file could be activated before the antivirus engine starts to function.
The flaw affects version 3.93 of Sophos’ antivirus engine and users are advised to upgrade to version 5.0.1.