Sophos' scan of files is much faster than those of Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, etc since it is designed to filter only the files that have been modified since the last scan. In Enterprise networks, this remains of vital importance. SCS provides information on free trial, product literature, and licensing for interested administrators. Below is a bullet pointed list of advantages to competitive Anti-Virus programs and can be used to assist in the integration of such programs.

1. Stream-lined scans of files (only scans files modified from the last scan).

2. Enterprise Management Console - centralized network installation.

3. Scans emails for harmful viruses and scripts.

4. Industry's smallest definitions requiring much less transfer time over the Internet/Network.

5. Multi-platform support for network running windows, .

Sophos is the only Virus program that allows an enterprise management console that will permit administrators of networks the capabilities to install from one location without being required to touch every workstation. SCS finds this to be but 1 of many strengths that are available through Sophos.

PURE MESSAGE (ANTI-SPAM SOFTWARE)

Anti-SPAM

PureMessage safely removes 98% of spam at the gateway, using a balanced combination of the latest, most effective anti-spam technologies: PureView content scanning, PureDetect message analysis and PureTrace asset tracking.

PureMessage allows you to:

• Maximize administrative efficiency
• Increase corporate productivity through efficient email usage
• Improve network resource and bandwidth usage, mail server load and storage demand
• Protect your organization from potential 'hostile environment' lawsuits

PureMessage provides real-time protection from:

• Open proxies and relays
• Dial-up account spamming
• Known spammers
• Current spam campaigns
• Image spam
• HTML concealment
• Scams, including phishing attacks

Advantages

• Effective spam protection
  Up to 98% of spam is safely removed from multiple language message streams at the gateway.
• Eliminates the business impact of false positives
  Quarantine digests and a personal web interface provide both scheduled and on-demand quarantine review, enabling end users to retrieve valid messages blocked by spam filters without administrative intervention or additional tools.
• Automatic updates
  Daily updates automate protection against new spam messages and evolving spam techniques.
• Comprehensive spam detection
  Multiple techniques are combined to increase the accuracy of spam detection.
• Cutting-edge technology
  Innovative research means that users are protected by the latest, most effective spam detection techniques.
• Unmatched spam-handling flexibility
  End users have web-based as well as email based controls, on-demand access to personal quarantines, whitelists and filtering preferences.
• Proprietary spam detection
  Spam identification tests are not publicly available or running on large public email systems, reducing the ability of spammers to innovate against PureMessage detection techniques.
• Multi-Platform Flexibility
  Pure Message will sit on Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems, offering the same level of high end protection from spam entering any network.

Anti-VIRUS

Sophos PureMessage checks all email traffic passing through your email server in real time, providing protection against mass-mailing worms and viruses at the gateway. Sophisticated threat reduction technology provides a powerful ability to prevent even new, unknown email-aware worms from entering your business without having to update your anti-virus solution.

PureMessage allows you to:

• Safeguard intellectual property from virus attacks
• Protect your network and other assets from virus attack in real time
• Protect reputations by guarding against delivery of a virus to a partner or customer

PureMessage provides real-time protection from:

• Virus-driven email outbreaks
• Worms
• Viruses
• Trojans
• Malicious code
• Suspicious attachments

Advantages

• Outbreak protection
  Message velocity monitoring detects and protects against virus-driven DoS type attacks and behavior, shielding organizations from infection and server outages during virus outbreaks.
• Easy deployment
  Virus protection is deployed at the gateway, ensuring that users are automatically protected, and all outbound email is automatically scanned from one central location. Organizations stay up-to-date and protected, even when individual workstations are not.
• Automatic updates
  Automatic virus signature updates continuously protect against the latest threats.
• Flexible virus handling
  Virus handling can be defined as part of an overall message-handling policy.