Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux 7

Sophos Anti-Virus provides superior on-access scanning for Linux desktops  laptops and servers  delivering excellent performance  stability and reliability  along with out-of-the-box support for the widest range of Linux distributions.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux protects Linux servers and desktops by detecting  reporting and disinfecting viruses  spyware  Trojans and worms.

Scanning 
	
Provides on-access  on-demand and scheduled scanning — using "at" or "cron" — of volumes  directories and individual files via a secure Web GUI or command line interface. 
	
Decision Caching technology improves on-access scanning performance by intercepting and scanning only files that have changed since last accessed. 
Management and configuration 

A secure Web GUI or command line interface provides administrators with central configuration and management of Sophos Anti-Virus on Linux computers. 
 
Updating 

Sophos Anti-Virus is kept up to date automatically: 
	
Using EM Library to distribute updates efficiently across a multi-platform network. 
	
Using cascading servers and Web-based updating direct from Sophos in pure Linux environments. 
	
Direct from Sophos or the company Website for offsite computers. 
Anti-virus technologies 
	
A range of technologies  including Dynamic Code Analysis  pattern matching  emulation and heuristics  automatically check for malicious code. 
	
Genotype detection technology proactively blocks families of viruses even before specific virus signatures are available.
Virus alerts 
	
Administrators are kept up to date with virus incidents via SMTP email.
	
Alerts for remote computers are queued until they connect to the network.

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