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Opinion on the updater snafu from a Senior Admin

I've been in this business over 30 years, and I have, believe me, gone through Hell with a lot of previous anti-virus products in the past. Sophos was, and still is in my opinion, the best and easiest to administer. So, it's amusing to read some of the posts on the Internet from rookie admins doing a good imitation of a Drama Queen. Knee-jerk reactions won't do you any good when something like this happens. I too, could not get through to Sophos yesterday afternoon. But, I understood that their phone lines were probably overtaxed, so I just waited for them to fix the problem, applied the fixes from other admins I found on the Net, and by the time I went home to a cold supper, things were more or less back to normal.

Now, having said all that, and holding Sophos in such high esteem for so long, I'm as disappointed as anyone over this. I expect, in fact I demand, more from Sophos. If they want to be held up as the gold standard in this business, they'd better review procedures and try to make sure this doesn't happen again. Furthermore, a supreme gesture of good faith would be some sort of discount on their loyal customer's next maintenance contract.

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  • I would like to know how the problem actually occured. Are there live protection updates not sent to a test environment first? I would hope that due to this problem more tighter controls are brought on to the liveprotection IDE updates (if that is what caused this issue).

    The problem was not that bad because it just broke the update mechanism and on access scanning was still working. Compared to a bad mcafee dat update a few years ago that left me with a few 1000 client pcs with blue screens that had to be manual fix via safemode, this was mild.

    But if sophos starts suffering from these sorts of problems again i will be very dissapointed because there is no one else to turn to that is any good imo. So if sophos could please outline what they are going to do to prevent this from ocurring again then i can at least go to my boss with some sort of information that might restore confidence.

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  • I would like to know how the problem actually occured. Are there live protection updates not sent to a test environment first? I would hope that due to this problem more tighter controls are brought on to the liveprotection IDE updates (if that is what caused this issue).

    The problem was not that bad because it just broke the update mechanism and on access scanning was still working. Compared to a bad mcafee dat update a few years ago that left me with a few 1000 client pcs with blue screens that had to be manual fix via safemode, this was mild.

    But if sophos starts suffering from these sorts of problems again i will be very dissapointed because there is no one else to turn to that is any good imo. So if sophos could please outline what they are going to do to prevent this from ocurring again then i can at least go to my boss with some sort of information that might restore confidence.

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