Sophos AntiVirus - Protecting your desktops, laptops and network servers

Sophos Anti-Virus

Protecting your desktops, laptops and network servers

Sophos Anti-Virus protects your network, desktop and even remote laptop computers from the latest viruses. The quality of its award-winning technology has been confirmed time and time again by independent bodies such as West Coast Labs, ICSA Labs and Virus Bulletin.

Protecting the desktop means that regardless of how a virus attempts to break in (email, CD, floppy disk, network shares, instant messaging, web download etc) it can be stopped. Using patented InterCheck technology, Sophos's on-access scanner provides constant real-time protection with minimal system overhead.

Network servers can also be protected with scheduled or constant real-time scanning, ensuring there is no opportunity for a virus to spread or damage your company's data.

Using Enterprise Manager, Sophos Anti-Virus can be kept automatically up to date with protection against the very latest virus threats. The Enterprise Manager suite provides a set of tools allowing fully automated web-based installation and updating of Sophos software across a network and even to remote users, via Remote Update. Enterprise Manager also incorporates powerful reporting facilities.

Windows 2000/XP Intel platform only; Windows XP desktop only

Certified by Novell and approved for NetWare versions 4.11 and 5 and NetWare SFT III version 4.11

AIX/Power PC, Digital Unix/Alpha (Compaq Tru64 Unix/Alpha), FreeBSD/Intel, HP-UX/HP-PA, Linux/Intel, SCO OpenServer/Intel, SCO UnixWare/Intel, Solaris/Intel, Solaris/SPARC

VAX version 4.0/Alpha version 1.0

On-access scanning is not available on Macintosh OS X

OS/2 on-access scanning requires OS/2 version 4.0

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Sophos Anti-Virus is available for all popular desktop and network operating systems, protecting laptops, workstations and servers.

Platforms supported

Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Windows 95/98/Me
NetWare
OS/2
Unix/Linux
Mac OS 8.1 or greater
Mac OS X New!
OpenVMS
DOS/Windows 3.1x

The threat of viruses infecting PDAs and mobile phones has been widely hyped by some anti-virus companies. The fact is that there have never been any reports of viruses successfully infecting these kind of devices outside of laboratory conditions.

However, it is possible for PDAs to carry a virus into a company (thus avoiding any email gateway protection), and for the suspect file to be copied onto your desktop from the PDA.

Sophos Anti-Virus protects against this kind of infection through its on-access scanner, detecting any viruses transmitted when the PDA or mobile phone synchronizes with the desktop PC.


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