Software lifecycle
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Products -
Sophos Anti-Virus support -
PureMessage support
These operating systems are currently supported by Sophos Anti-Virus.
Retirement is when all urgent software fixes, protection updates and support will end.
Maintenance is when feature development of Sophos Anti-Virus for these operating systems will end.
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| DOS/Windows 3.1x | 31 July 2007 |
| Windows 95 (OSR2) | 31 Dec 2010 * Maintenance: 31 Dec 2007 |
| Windows 98 (SE) | 31 Dec 2010 * Maintenance: 31 Dec 2007 |
| Windows Me | 31 Dec 2008 Maintenance: 31 Dec 2007 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) on Intel Japanese version 1 |
31 Dec 2006 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) on Intel English version |
31 Dec 2010 * Maintenance: 31 Mar 2005 |
| Windows 2000 (No Service Pack, or Service Packs 1 or 2) | 28 Feb 2007 |
| Windows 2000 (Service Packs 3, 4) | 31 Jul 2012 Maintenance: 31 Jul 2010 |
| Windows XP (No Service Pack) | 28 Feb 2007 |
| Windows XP (Service Pack 1, 1a and 2) | No plans to retire |
| Windows Vista | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit) | No plans to retire |
| VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5 | No plans to retire |
| VMware Workstation 5.0 | No plans to retire |
| VMware Server 1.0 | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2008 | No plans to retire |
1 Where a particular language version of Sophos Anti-Virus is no longer available, you can install the English language version of Sophos Anti-Virus instead.
* Please contact Sophos or your Sophos partner to extend support beyond December 2008. Additional charge may apply.
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| Mac OS 8/9 | 28 Feb 2007 |
| Mac OS X 10.2/10.3/10.4 | No plans to retire |
| Distributions supported | Retirement |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Linux 5.1/5.2/6.0/6.1/7.2/8 | On-access scanning capability - 31 August 2007 |
| On-demand scanning capability - no plans to discontinue | |
| Red Hat Linux 9.0 | No plans to retire |
| Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 2.1 | 31 August 2007 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1/3/4/5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1/3/4/5 Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3 |
No plans to retire |
| Novel Open Enterprise Server | No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux 6/7/8 | On-access scanning capability - 31 August 2007 |
| On-demand scanning capability - no plans to discontinue | |
| SUSE Linux Professional 9.0 | On-access scanning capability - 31 August 2007 |
| On-demand scanning capability - no plans to discontinue | |
| SUSE Linux Professional 9.1/9.2/9.3 | No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux 10.0/10.1 | No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.0/9.0/10.0 | No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 | No plans to retire |
| TurboLinux 6 AS/7 TurboLinux 8 Server TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 |
On-access scanning capability - 31 August 2007 |
| On-demand scanning capability - no plans to discontinue | |
| TurboLinux 10 Server | No plans to retire |
| Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition 5.1.3 and above | No plans to retire |
| Miracle/Asianux | No plans to retire |
| Linux using other distributions on libc6 on Intel | On-demand scanning capability - no plans to discontinue |
| Operating systems supported | Retirement |
|---|---|
| NetWare 4.2/5 | 31 Dec 2006 |
| NetWare 5.1 | No plans to retire |
| NetWare 6.0 | 31 Dec 2007 |
| NetWare 6.5 | No plans to retire |
| NetWare Open Enterprise Server | No plans to retire |
| OS/2 Warp version 3/4 | 31 Dec 2007 |
| OS/2 Emergency Sweep Distribution | 31 Dec 2006 |
| Tru64 UNIX (Digital UNIX) 4.0D/5.1A on Alpha | 31 Dec 2007 |
| FreeBSD 3.0/3.4/4.0 on Intel | No plans to retire |
| FreeBSD 4.5/4.8/5.1/5.3 on Intel | No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 10.20/11.0/11.11/11.23 on HP-PA | No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 11.23 on Itanium 2 | No plans to retire |
| AIX 4.2/5.1/5.2/5.3 on PowerPC | No plans to retire |
| Solaris 7/8/9/10 on Intel | No plans to retire |
| Solaris 8/9/10 on SPARC | No plans to retire |
| Solaris Sun OS 5.6 on SPARC | No plans to retire |
| SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 on Intel | No plans to retire |
| SCO OpenServer 5.0.5/5.0.7/6 on Intel | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 5.4-3 on VAX | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 1.5 to 7.x on Alpha | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 8.2 on Itanium 2 | No plans to retire |
