campus switching to Sophos antivirus...

[97tbird]

Here's the email that I got from computer services of our school today:
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Computing Services has recently implemented the Sophos antivirus program on the
faculty and staff machines at Campbell University. We are now ready to release the program to students. As you know, the University pays the licensing fee each year for all Main Campus students to have a subscription-based antivirus program. The subscription on Symantec will expire soon, so it is imperative that students remove Symantec and
install Sophos as soon as possible. Please remember, the University requires windows-based, network-enabled computers to use the University's antivirus program.
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I've never heard of Sophos before...does anybody know of this? good? bad?

 

[RedDart]

I work for the State of Maryland and that is the AV software used on the servers. Seems to work OK and works unobtrusively in the background. I believe Sophos is a British company.

 

[klaymon]

Sophos is a major player in the anti-virus business.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I supported Sophos at a previous job. Win32 clients didn't have a DAT updater, rather the entire program had to be reinstalled every week. Several hundred clients on 10Mbit segments made for a less than spritely computing experience. Aggrrhh. Yeah, that was a while ago. I hope Sophos offers a "DAT" updater now rather than reinstalling then entire thing...

On the positive side, it was quite unobtrusive, even on Win9x machines.