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SOPHOS
ANTI VIRUS - ENGINEERED FOR THE ENTERPRISE
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One product protecting the whole network
Sophos Anti-Virus is a unique solution to the virus problem, providing true cross-platform protection in a single, fully integrated product. The network-centric design provides a host of benefits for the protection of servers, workstations and portables. Sophos's ground-breaking architecture maximizes protection, while minimizing performance and administrative overheads. Sophos Anti-Virus is fully scalable, equally at home protecting:- a single PC
- a local network
- or the entire enterprise
Sophos
Anti-Virus is a unique solution to the virus problem, providing true
cross-platform protection in a single, fully integrated product. The
network-centric design provides a host of benefits for the protection of
servers, workstations and portables.
Sophos's
ground-breaking architecture maximizes protection, while minimizing
performance and administrative overheads. Sophos Anti-Virus monitors all
virus entry points, including disks, programs, documents, network drives,
CD-ROMs, Internet downloads, email attachments and compressed files.
Veritest, a
major independent testing lab, has completed and published their results
for Sophos Anti-Virus. Sophos was tested against NAI/McAfee, Symantec and
GeCAD (now owned by Microsoft), across a number of different areas.
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INSTALLATION SPEED: On a test network, Sophos Anti-Virus installation time was the fastest - 673% faster than Network Associates/McAfee.
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INSTALLATION SIZE: Sophos Anti-Virus takes up the least amount of disk space on the client, 274% smaller than Symantec.
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SCANNING PERFORMANCE: Sophos Anti-Virus performed virus scanning the fastest, scanning 231% faster than Symantec.
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VIRUS UPDATES: Sophos provided the most frequent virus updates in both manual and automatic testing configurations and provided extremely small update files. For a 10-day test period, the total size of downloads necessary to keep Sophos Anti-Virus updated was 419 Kb - 30x smaller than Symantec (at 12.5 Mb), and 25x smaller than Network Associates/McAfee (at 10.3 Mb).
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VIRUS UPDATE NOTIFICATION: Sophos is the only vendor to provide virus update emails on a daily basis.
Anti-Virus is available for:
| Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for Lotus Notes/Domino and MS Exchange | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for Macintosh | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for OS/2 | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for NetWare | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMS |
Sophos Anti-Virus monitors all virus entry points, including disks, programs, documents, network drives, CD-ROMs, Internet downloads, email attachments and compressed files.
Over 65 per cent of The Times Top 100 Companies use Sophos Anti-Virus
to protect their networks from viruses. This endorsement of Sophos
Anti-Virus protection is shared around the world.
ReSoft International recommends Sophos for integration with MIMEsweeper Content Security solutions and on Lotus Notes/Domino platforms.
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