Sophos, the world leader in network-based anti-virus solutions,
today announced that Sophos Anti-Virus for DOS has been awarded the
VB 100% award in the February 2000 edition of Virus Bulletin..
Virus Bulletin tested 13 different anti-virus products for their
detection rates, lack of false alarms, and speed of scanning.
Sophos not only detected all the in the wild virus samples it was
tested against, but also came out with a perfect score in the false
alarm test.
"We're delighted to have further independent verification of the
quality of Sophos's anti-virus products," said Graham Cluley,
senior technology consultant for Sophos, "This award, combined with
our successes recently in PC Magazine and Secure Computing, has
been a terrific start to 2000."
About the Virus Bulletin 100% award
The Virus Bulletin 100% awards recognize those products best
able to detect viruses known to be 'in the wild'. Unlike some other
similar-sounding schemes, Virus Bulletin uses the most up-to-date
WildList in its tests. This means that products that are 'up with
the game' are the ones most likely to be granted VB 100%
awards.
About Sophos
Sophos is one of the world's largest specialist developers of
anti-virus and encryption software. The products are sold and
supported through a global network of subsidiaries and partners in
more than 40 countries. Sophos Anti-Virus is widely used by large
corporations, banks and governments.
The product set is notable for its reliability, stability,
consistently high detection rates and fine engineering. The update
infrastructure and technical support are outstanding. Sophos Plc
was recently voted Britain's best medium-sized company.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.