Sophos is Now Ready for Vista

Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs is proud to announce that their Sophos anti-virus is now ready to run under Vista. He proudly says that while other vendors were busy fuming and complaining about the Kernel Patch of Microsoft, they have worked closely with the Software Giant to make their technology compatible with it. The APIs promised by Microsoft for the Kernel Patch is not going to happen until 2008 and Sophos made a smart decision of configuring they technology to work alongside that of Vista’s.

The new package of Sophos include:

1. Protection against viruses, spyware, adware and potentially unwanted applications
2. 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
3. Behavioral Genotype Protection to guard against unknown threats
4. High performance scanning with Decision Caching
5. Central management and update features, using Enterprise Console
6. Automatic updates against the latest threats every 10 minutes

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