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Security news5 December 2006
Yes, Sophos has already released Vista anti-virus protection! Sophos responds to inaccurate media reports
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Sophos today issued a statement responding to a number of media reports that implied the company was amongst the anti-virus vendors who have not yet issued a product to protect users of Windows Vista.
In fact, Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows Vista was released on 23 November 2006, and is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the new operating system.
"Unfortunately misleading media reports like these take a life of their own, and start to become repeated as fact," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Some anti-virus vendors may be planning to release their solutions for Vista sometime in 2007, but a few seconds of Googling would have revealed that Sophos has already done it!"
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, version 6.5 includes:
- Protection against viruses, spyware, adware and PUAs
- Application control, which allows businesses to set their own policies regarding whether user groups are allowed to run software such as IM clients, VoIP, peer-to-peer file sharing and distributed computing projects
- Behavioral Genotype™ Protection to guard against unknown threats
- High performance scanning with Decision Caching
- Central management and update features, using Enterprise Console
- Automatic updates against the latest threats every 10 minutes
Customers using Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003, version 6.0 will be updated to support Vista automatically, without any user intervention.
- Read more about Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows Vista, and whether Vista is a secure operating system
- Listen to a Sophos podcast where Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs discusses Windows Vista, and whether Microsoft is stopping security vendors from doing their job
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About Sophos
Sophos enables enterprises all over the world to secure and control their IT infrastructure. Sophos's network access control, endpoint, web and email solutions simplify security to provide integrated defenses against malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, policy abuse, data leakage and compliance drift. With over 20 years of experience, Sophos protects over 100 million users in nearly 150 countries with its reliably engineered security solutions and services. Recognized for its high level of customer satisfaction and powerful yet easy-to-use solutions, Sophos has received many industry awards, as well as positive reviews and certifications.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com
