Sophos Antivirus description
It protects your network, desktop and even remote laptop computers from the latest viruses

Sophos Anti-Virus protects your network, desktop and even remote laptop computers from the latest viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware. 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, Sophoss 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 companys 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.

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

Here are some key features of "Sophos Antivirus":

· Sophos Anti-Virus
Complete defense against viruses, spyware, adware and PUAs across the widest range of platforms of any vendor. Sophos Anti-Virus is 100% Checkmark-certified for spyware detection.

· Sophos AutoUpdate
The smallest, fastest protection is automatically distributed at pre-set times or on-demand. Failsafe updating and bandwidth throttling ensures remote laptop users stay protected.

· Centralized cleanup
Computers can be completely disinfected in a single operation. Unwanted registry entries, running processes, and even files on disk are removed.

· Proactively protect against known and unknown threats
Behavioral Genotpye protection identifies malicious code and blocks it before execution, giving the benefits of a Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS).

· High performance scanning
Scanning can be performed on access, on demand and automatically at scheduled times. Decision Caching technology means only those files that have changed are rescanned.


Limitations:

· 30-day trial