'Sophos' Sophos gives the wrong medicine

Sophos has officially apologized to users for mistakenly releasing an update to the Inqtana-B virus identification information that attacks Mac OS X.

The update of the Inqtana-B virus identification information was released on Tuesday last week (February 21), instead of identifying the virus, it mistakenly received some files of the infected Microsoft Office suite. But just two hours after the failed update was detected, Sophos immediately released a fix.

However, if a user sets the automatic detection of the virus, with this faulty update really troubling when consecutive warnings break out, MS Office cannot work and the user will have to install Reset this application set.

A Sophos spokesman said the anti-virus software did not automatically delete the files without first obtaining permission. Only a handful of Sophos customers are affected by this "mistake" pomelo.

Mistakes in updating virus identification information are an infrequent occurrence. Sophos said that this is only a risk in testing its antivirus software on Mac OS X platform. The company also said it will make changes to the testing process to limit future risks.