[1036] in resnet
Re: Sophos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul D. Walker II)
Thu Mar 28 07:26:46 2002
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:14:53 -0600
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From: "Paul D. Walker II" <paul.walker@MOODY.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
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'At 01:29 PM 3/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any experience with Sophos Anti-virus software, good, bad
>or otherwise?
>
>Rick Starnes
>Technical Support Manager
>UCLA Residential Network
>rstarnes@be.ucla.edu
>www.resnet.ucla.edu
>310 206-3192
>310 825-3400
>
Our experience with Sophos is that they have always been way ahead of the
Symantec folks as far as getting virus signatures in the product. They
have multiplatform support and plugins for mail servers and Exchange.
Automatic distribution works great. We have a central server that "phones
home" to Sophos and determines if there are updates to the definition files
every four hours. If there are, it downloads them and starts distributing
them to the desktops.
The only complaint we had is building the initial distribution to install
on the local PC. Sophos has a lot of options for notifying the user or
central administrator and getting those configured the way you want takes a
few iterations.
We are a very happy customer.
Paul
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