Re: SOPHOS Antivirus

From: Anonymous (anon_at_anon.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:59:21 +0000 (UTC)

Frog <FrogRemailer@bigfoot.com> wrote in news:Z474JH4D38134.3483796296
@Gilgamesh-Frog.org:

> Just wondered what the general consensus is about an Antivirus program
> called SOPHOS?
>
> We use the thing here at work, and it doesn't look that flash to me;
> Doesn't even do a memory scan before doing a HD scan.
>
> Is anybody out there using it? And if so, what do you think of it?
>
>
> Thanks
> Charles
>
>

Hi
I have used sophos AV for 4 years, and have never been infected once.
Sophos blocks several viruses per week, including some of the viruses
which hit the headlines.

True. Sophos does not look that 'flash', but sophos is designed to
detect viruses, and have minimal resource usage, not to look pretty and
colourful like NAV or McAfee, which are designed to look good, waste
memory, and not detect viruses!.

Sophos scans memory when InterCheck client loads. There is no need to
scan memory for viruses again because InterCheck will detect any known
viruses as infected files are executed, before the viruses become
resident in memory.
When SAV is updated, InterCheck restarts, and scans the memory for any
new resident viruses which were not previously detected when the memory
was scanned before.

As for Sophos's detection capability, it currently has 24 VB100% awards,
which places sophos AV as second best AV in terms of detection.
As of 12:34AM 3\6\04, SAV 3.82 detects 90921 known viruses, which is
larger than most other AV vendors (compare this to Nortons pathetic 67606
viruses).
SAV also has Check-Mark levels 1 and 2

SAV has very good performance. SAV is one of the fastest AV scanners I
have used, and uses very little memory.
It runs fine on an old 16Mb win95 machine.

SAV is updated frequently too. Sophos release IDE files within a few
hours that a new virus is discovered. IDE files are very small and
compact, so bandwidth is reduced.

SAV also has superb administrative and alerting features.

In conclusion, I am a very happy Sophos user and have not had an
infection for several years, and I don't plan to switch AV scanners soon.

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