Sophos Anti-Virus, Europe's leading developer of corporate
anti-virus solutions, has achieved first place in a prestigious
test conducted by Germany's leading professional IT magazine.
The test, published in the May 2000 edition of CHIP, was
conducted in co-ordination with the University of Magdeburg in
collaboration with GEGA Software and Medienservice.
In a test of 14 different anti-virus products Sophos Anti-Virus
beat software from all other vendors including Network Associates,
Symantec, F-Secure, Panda Software, Computer Associates, Command
Software, Kaspersky Labs, and Norman Data Defense.
Sophos Anti-Virus was the only product to achieve an overall
score of more than 90%. CHIP magazine commented "The least resource
hungry of all the tested products, coupled with monthly CD ROM and
daily internet updates clearly gives Sophos Anti-Virus first
place."
"We are delighted to have the quality of Sophos Anti-Virus
confirmed by these tests," said Graham Cluley, head of corporate
communications at Sophos. "These latest CHIP results further
strengthen our position as the anti-virus product best suited to
the corporate marketplace."
Sophos's superb performance contrasted strongly with competitors
such as McAfee VirusScan from Network Associates and Symantec's
Norton Anti-Virus.
CHIP said of McAfee VirusScan which achieved 12th place: "Of all
the programs VirusScan is the most memory hungry and has an update
model capable of being improved."
Meanwhile Norton Anti-Virus, which achieved 9th position, was
described as having "a major impact on system resources".
The full review can be read in the May 2000 edition of CHIP
magazine. Please click here to download
the review (PDF file). It is also available on the CHIP magazine
website.
You can also view the test results from the University of
Magdeburg in collaboration with GEGA Software and Medienservice at
www.av-test.com.
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.