Re: SOPHOS Antivirus

From: Don Kelloway (dkelloway_at_commodon.com)
Date: 05/30/04

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    "Billy K" <billycomp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
    news:40b8578f$1@news.comindico.com.au...
    > Sorry for before, I'm just an admin who is honestly very disapointed
    with a
    > product.
    >
    > I work in an envirnoment that deals with other International firms
    mainly in
    > Asia. We use Sophos anti-virus on servers and clients. All updates
    come
    > through automatically from a share which is updated as soon as any
    updates
    > become available. We definately run current updates.
    >
    > Every major virus to hit the net, we get it. Your right though,
    Sophos
    > detect all of these, however fails to deal with the virus accordingly.
    > Having the file deteled, moved, shredded, copied and etc is not really
    a
    > fantastic option. My question is, how do these files become infected
    in the
    > first place if Sophos was doing it's job.
    >
    > We have a concern that Sophos will one day delete some important
    document
    > because we have it set to delete viruses. In the environment I work
    in we
    > get multiple viruses a week, we have to keep it on the highest
    possible
    > setting.
    >
    > The disinfect option is just there for good looks. I've never had a
    file
    > disinfected. The interface with the 3 modes, Immediate, Scheduled,
    and IC
    > client is just not practicle. The same configuration must be made 3
    times.
    >
    > The SAV administration tool is OK, gets the IDE updates out there, but
    this
    > must be the only reason large organisations use SOPHOS. It does have
    easy
    > deployment.
    >

    Though I understand what you're saying, I can't offer any comment other
    than to say that I do not subscribe to the philosophy of fixing virus
    infected attachments. If it's a virus, it's deleted. Plain and simple.
    My reasoning behind this is that I only rely on an AV product for it's
    detection abilities and nothing more. 

    -- 
Best regards, from Don Kelloway of Commodon Communications
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