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• SOPHOS SOFTWARE REVIEW MANUAL

Sophos has stated no interest in developing its own firewall product. Sophos also lacks what we consider essential features, including a firewall to prevent authorized system attacks and inbound/outbound e-mail scanning.

SOPHOS SOFTWARE REVIEW MANUAL

The manual disinfection/shredding process is a bit more work than is required from other antivirus programs, however. If the program cannot disinfect a file, Sophos recommends that it either be manually disinfected (with details on individual viruses available on Sophos's Web site) or overwritten ("shredded"). Its memory-resident InterCheck utility prevents users from accessing infected files, but the program lacks a quarantine file to safely remove infected files from active use. Sophos Anti-Virus shows the progress of a scan while it's running.īy default, Sophos Anti-Virus disinfects macro viruses, boot-sector viruses, and some executable viruses. In fact, we often forgot about the program until it performed a scheduled scan and our system slowed slightly. Sophos Anti-Virus interacts rarely, if ever, with the end user, which is how most IT departments like it. Many antivirus programs prod the user to check for Web updates, or they provide frequent pop-up reports of their actions. Sophos's interface shows a scan's progress, giving you a clear idea of how long a virus checkup will take. Simply click the Scheduled tab, then the Add button, and proceed from there. Integrated into the main interface is the Sophos scheduler, making it easier than in some antivirus products we've seen to schedule scans.

But the Configuration and Alert buttons really should really be combined, as both lead you to roughly the same program settings. For instance, the Go button starts a scan Stop ends it. Sophos's desktop interface is not quite as slick as Norton's, McAfee's, or PC-cillin's, but its simple, icon-and-menu design requires little or no training. Sophos Anti-Virus's setup screen provides a lot of useful information. Uninstalling the product returned to the original functionality, but re-installing it also caused the glitch again."="" -="">/sc/21270-SS1.gif" width="300" height="225" border="0" /> First, tabbing between applications using Alt-Tab randomly began sticking the application window thumbnails to the screen until I hit enter on the one I wanted, rather than selecting the one I wanted when I let go of the keys. There are also a few glitches to contend with. It also seems to be impossible to initiate a remote scan of a device from the cloud. There’s no option to run a boot-time scan, when any stealthy malware is still sleeping on disc, or to run a thorough, deep scan. Speaking of options, scanning seems to be limited to the default “Clean My Computer”. There’s no option to securely shred it or to send it to the cloud for further examination. Right clicking a file allows you to scan it, for example, but that’s all. There are no other controls.Ī local network scan, to both identify devices and to check them for security issues, is also absent. The privacy section, for example, only has an option, which alerts you to unauthorised use of your webcam.

Despite the range of protection modules, some useful tools are still missing or underpowered.