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Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection

 

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Overview:

Download a free 30-day trial of Sophos Endpoint Security and Control Today! Click here.Our antivirus for UNIX is part of Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection. It finds spyware and viruses on all your UNIX computers.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Non-Windows is part of Sophos Endpoint Security and Control and is designed to provide multi-platform protection against viruses, spyware and other malware. Automatic updates ensure complete protection while integrated detection can isolate and clean Windowsbased threats from any operating system.

Key Benefits

  • Protect your UNIX, NetWare and OpenVMS computers, plus Windows, Mac and UNIX
  • Our antivirus wins awards - it finds and zaps viruses, spyware, Trojans and worms
  • You decide how and when to scan your systems
  • One management interface shows you what's going on now
  • Our SophosLabs research teams send automatic updates
  • You only need one console for UNIX for SPARC and Itanium and your other computers
  • We're flexible on deployment - use a web GUI or command line interface

Features & Benefits:

 

Award-winning multi-platform protection in one product

  • Platforms covered include most common versions of UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, Netware and Mac OS X.
  • Sophos Enterprise Console can centrally configure and manage all Windows, Linux and Mac computers from a single point.
  • Unique Behavioral Genotype® Protection automatically guards against unknown threats by analyzing behavior before code executes, delivering the benefits of a Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS).
  • Genotype® virus detection technology is available in all versions of Sophos Anti-Virus and protects against families of viruses even before specific detection is available.
  • Sophos Anti-Virus detects, reports, and disinfects viruses, spyware and other malware in real time and is 100% Checkmark-certified for spyware detection.
  • The latest software and virus detection updates are automatically downloaded from SophosLabs™, ensuring that all computers across a network including laptops are fully protected.
  • ActivePolicies help create security policy for computers and servers and apply it across multiple groups simultaneously.
  • Scanning and disinfection can be performed on-demand or automatically at scheduled times, resulting in minimum impact on system performance
  • Every virus incident is automatically reported to the administrator.
  • Day-to-day management is even easier thanks to automated and customized reporting.

Sophos Anti-Virus: protecting a cross-platform environment
Sophos Anti-Virus: protecting a cross-platform environment

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X

  • Integrated cross-platform virus detection means Windows viruses can be deleted or cleaned on a Mac OS X computer.
  • Allows scheduled updating and configuration from a single Mac computer.
  • Sophos Anti-Virus and Sophos Update Manager can be installed on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based computers.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux

  • Delivers on-access, on-demand and scheduled scanning of local hard disks, media drives, shared file systems and distributed file systems.
  • Out-of-the-box support for many Linux kernels, including recent 64-bit versions.
    • Red Hat Package Manager can be used to deploy in Linux-only environments.
  • Integrated cross-platform virus detection ensures Windows viruses are deleted and cleaned on a Linux computer.

Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX

  • Offers wide platform support for over 25 platforms and can clean and delete Windows viruses from any UNIX computer.
  • Is provided as a command line tool, making it ideal for interpretation into custom scripts.
  • Provides the latest software and virus detection updates automatically from SophosLabs, or via Sophos AutoUpdate, ensuring that all computers across the network are fully protected.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Netware

  • Scanning and disinfection can be performed on demand and automatically at scheduled times, resulting in a minimum impact on system performance.
  • Notification of virus alerts can be sent to eDirectory group users.
Platform-specific features NetWare UNIX Linux OpenVMS Macintosh
Performance-optimized on-access scans •   •   •
Integrated scheduler • cron cron DCL cron
Intelligent file recognition™ •       •
Automated update • •1 •1   •
Minimum OS version 5.1       10.2.8
Language support •2 •3 •3 •2 •3
Managed by Sophos Enterprise Console     •   •

1: EM Library requires Window computer
2: English
3: English, French, German Japanese and Spanish

System requirements:

Linux on Intel

  • Red Hat 5.1/5.2/6.0/6.1/7.2/8/9
  • RHEL 2.1/3/4
  • SUSE 6/7/8/9.0/9.1/9.2/9.3/10.0
  • Enterprise Server 8/9
  • TurboLinux 6/7/8/10

(For more distributions supported with both on-access and on-demand scanning, see the Linux system requirements for Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux.)

FreeBSD

  • 3.0/3.4/4.0/4.5/4.8/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/6.0/7.0 on Intel
  • 6.0/7.0 on AMD64

OpenBSD

  • 3.6/3.7/3.8/3.9/4.0 on Intel and on AMD64

HP-UX

  • 10.20/11.0/11.11/11.23/11.31 on HP-PA
  • 11.22/11.23*/11.31* on Itanium 2

AIX

  • 4.2/5.1/5.2/5.3*/6.1* on PowerPC

Solaris

  • Solaris 7/8/9*/10* on Intel
  • Solaris 10 on AMD64
  • Solaris 8/9/10 on SPARC
  • Sun OS 5.6 on SPARC

SCO

  • UnixWare 7.1.4 on Intel
  • OpenServer 5.0.5/5.0.7/6 on Intel

OpenVMS

  • 1.5 to 7.x on Alpha
  • 8.2 on Itanium 2

NetWare

  • 5.1./6.5
  • Open Enterprise Server

Languages supported

  • English and Japanese

* Centrally managed using Enterprise Console; AIX 5.3 and 6.1 only operate with Enterprise Console version 4.0 and above

Documentation:

PDF File
Sophos Endpoint Security and Control for Non-Windows Data Sheet (.PDF)