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Product Overview

Technical Specifications

Why Sophos is best

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Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Business

Product Overview

Sophos business is focused exclusively on the corporate marketplace where our products protect all key points in a company's IT infrastructure including gateways, networks, servers and desktops. All products combine award-winning technology with outstanding engineering to provide easily administered, integrated protection across multiple platforms.

At the core of all Sophos products is a sophisticated virus detection engine, developed and supported by Sophos experts. The software's platform-independent architecture ensures the same network functionality is enabled, regardless of the operating system being used.

Sophos products provide easily administered, superior virus protection with low performance overhead.

Over 20 million users worldwide are already using Sophos products which provide comprehensive protection against viruses and spam.

Sophos software can protect every tier in your business's IT infrastructure, from the desktops, laptops and servers at its heart, to the email servers at its boundaries and to the managed services beyond. Even the most remote laptop user can be brought into your overall corporate security strategy.

Where are you interested in placing protection?  Click on the product logo(s) below for more in-depth information.

Desktop		Laptop
Viruses don't just travel via email - they also travel via floppy disk, CD, network shares, instant messaging and web downloads. Defending your desktop computers against the virus threat is essential.		Just because your workforce is on the move doesn't mean that it cannot benefit from the latest virus protection. Find out how Sophos can protect your remote workforce.
Network server
The data you hold on your network is the lifeblood of your company, and needs to be defended from virus attack. Sophos provides the highest level of protection.
PDAs and mobile phones
Although the current threat is not great on most mobile devices, Sophos can still prevent viruses from infecting your business through this entry point.
Enterprise administration and reporting
Anti-virus protection is no use if you don't keep it updated. Sophos takes the pain away by delivering a suite of tools which provide completely automated web-based installation, administration and updating of Sophos software. Network administrators are put in full control and can monitor their network at all times, producing comprehensive management reports of virus hotspots inside their business.
Integrating with Sophos Anti-Virus technology
Sophos works with technology partners to bring additional services to customers. You can view more details of the managed services that can be provided, or read more about how to integrate Sophos Anti-Virus technology.

Technical Specifications

Sophos Anti-Virus incorporates patented InterCheck technology, which has been developed to optimize on-access virus detection in networked environments. It uses a combination of virus scanning and check summing to minimize the number of times each file needs to be virus checked, without compromising security. This eliminates the performance overheads associated with many anti-virus solutions.

Sophos Anti-Virus's leading-edge virus engine ensures secure 100% detection. The engine incorporates a full code emulator, an on-line decompressor and an OLE2 engine for detecting and disinfecting macro viruses. Detection is performed using Sophos's proprietary Virus Detection Language.

InterCheck creates a connection between implementations of Sophos Anti-Virus running on both servers and desktops. This enables centralized installation, configuration, updating and reporting and is the foundation for all implementations of Sophos Anti-Virus.

The default configuration meets most requirements, but Sophos Anti-Virus gives the network manager further flexibility to optimize performance and reduce end-user intervention.

Sophos Anti-Virus can be installed, configured and updated without visiting desktops, and without requiring user intervention.
 

Sophos Anti-Virus features
Protection against all known viruses
Multi-platform support
Multi-server support
Monthly updates on CD
Updates via the Internet
24/7 technical support
PC/workstation support
Portable PC protection
Server protection
Gateway compatibility
In-house virus detection engine
In-house virus research
On-line virus information
Protection against all virus carriers
Flexible licensing options
Year 2000 compliance

Why Sophos is best

Sophos Anti-Virus has been designed for large networks to provide the highest level of protection while minimizing overhead and system administration. It is updated every month to protect your entire operation securely and economically with the latest virus intelligence. It is also backed up by a highly qualified support and virus research team 24 hours a day.

That's why Sophos Anti-Virus is chosen and trusted by hundreds of thousands of security professionals around the world.

Efficient Virus Detection

Sophos Anti-Virus is recognized as one of the world's leading anti-virus products, receiving industry certifications and winning many awards. Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded ICSA certification,the VB 100%  award for its top quality virus detection as well as the West Coast Labs Check Mark, click on the icon(s) below for more information.

Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) takes a radically different approach to on-access virus detection, avoiding the need to scan every file every time it is accessed. When a user attempts to access an unknown item, SAV carries out an automatic virus check. If the item is certified virus-free, its checksum is added to a list of authorized items and the user is free to access and re-access it without restriction. Subsequent virus checks are only carried out if the object is modified, e.g. due to the presence of a virus.

As Sophos Anti-Virus' on-access detection rates matches its on-demand detection, there is no need to enforce lengthy scheduled scans when users log on.

Cross-platform support

Sophos Anti-Virus is a multi-platform solution supporting virtually any combination of the following clients and servers:

Central administration

Sophos Anti-Virus contains powerful management tools so that the software can be installed, configured and updated from a single point. Protection of an entire network is automated and requires no user intervention. Sophos Anti-Virus also features centralized reporting of virus incidents.

Technical support - 24/7

Sophos provides all its customers 24 hour telephone support 7 days a week 365 days a year. When you call Sophos, you speak directly to one of our qualified technicians, without a voicemail loop to go through, and without spending long periods on hold.

Unlike many of our competitors, we don't offer different levels of support to different customers. Everyone who calls us receives the same professional response at no additional cost.

Round the clock protection

Sophos Anti-Virus works round the clock to ensure that virus infections are intercepted before they cause damage. Every time a user runs any program or accesses a floppy disk, CD-ROM, email attachment or Internet download, it is automatically checked for viruses, without any user intervention.

Regular updates

Sophos incorporates the detection and disinfection of about 300 new viruses every month. Updates are shipped on the first Monday of the month after undergoing a rigorous beta testing process.

Updates are available on CD-ROM or they can be downloaded from our website.

Product strength

Sophos is one of the few manufacturers to use its own virus engine developed in-house. We and we alone are responsible for the engine maintenance. As we incorporate the new virus identities into our engine, we don't have to worry about whether it will cope with them each month - and nor do you.

A solid investment

In addition to the purchase price, using anti-virus software requires expensive staff and network resources. Sophos Anti-Virus has been designed to minimize the cost of ownership.

Sophos Anti-Virus is licensed in competitive price bands and features a range of management tools to ensure installation, configuration and updating can be carried out quickly and efficiently.

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