Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5, which is known as a part of Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection can help you protect both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macintosh servers, desktops and laptops. It detects non-Mac viruses hidden on Mac computers and is easy to manage in both all-Mac and mixed environments.

Major Features:

1. Complete protection
   • Protect both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs with single install
   • Detect and clean-up Windows viruses hidden on Macs with award-winning virus protection
   • Automatically guard against unknown threats with unique Behavioral Genotype Protection
   • Reduce system impact with high performance scanning performed on access, on demand and automatically at scheduled times
2. Easy to manage across mixed and all-Mac environments
   • Configure Mac protection centrally from the same console as Windows, Linux and UNIX protection
   • Get instant visibility of security status, enable automatic email alerts, set scheduled updating and define scanning policies centrally
   • Install anti-virus on all your Macs from a single Mac with Sophos Update Manager
   • Automatically update with small (typically 5 KB), rapidly issued SophosLabs updates, released as often as every 10 minutes
3. Trusted performance and support
   • Receive free, constant, automatic updates and upgrades for new releases, 24/7 in-house technical support with no hidden costs
   • Depend upon a recognized market leader in endpoint protection

Enhancements:

• Sophos Anti-Virus supports Mac OS X version 10.6, in addition to versions 10.4 and 10.5. However, the Sophos Anti-Virus preferences run only in 32-bit mode.
• You can copy a custom scan. This feature enables you to easily create a scan that contains a scan list or configuration that is similar to an existing scan.
• On Mac OS X version 10.6, you can run a Finder item scan from the Services submenu.

• This version includes fixes for the following problems:
  

  • (DEF 41879) If you disable on-access scanning while Sophos Anti-Virus is scanning a large file, the computer can stop responding to user input for a long time.
  • (DEF 40522) If you run a default scan of the Mac, only the four most significant digits of the error count are displayed.
• The threat detection engine and threat data have been updated.