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Avira Antivirus-Engine - Update to new version required

Avira Antivirus-Engine - Update to new version required

As you may know, Sophos offers two antivirus engines for the SG and XG Firewall. On the one hand, the in-house Sophos Antivirus-Engine and on the other hand, the Avira engine.

This interaction will not change in the future, but Avira will discontinue support for an older version of its Scan Engine on December 31, 2019.

What you need to consider

Sophos has already reacted to this announcement. From XG v17.5 and UTM 9.6 versions, the new Avira engine is already being used.

Anyone still working with older firmware versions of these products and using the Avira engine simply has to update to at least one of the versions mentioned above by the end of the year.

For Cyberoam products, only the Sophos Scan Engine is used, so all Cyberoam customers must update to version 10.6.2 or higher.

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