Sophos secures PCs for The Sun's problem page team
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| Deidre Sanders protects her business with Sophos
Anti-Virus |
Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam protection
for business, today announced that Dear Deidre, the UK's best-known
problem page, has selected its anti-virus software to provide
automatic protection against viruses, worms and Trojan horses.
Published in The Sun since 1980, Deidre's column has established
more than eleven million loyal readers a day, with trained
counsellors responding to every single letter received. The agony
column receives approximately 1,500 letters from readers each week,
with two-thirds currently arriving by email. This growing reliance
on email has meant that the Dear Deidre team has increasingly
become exposed to the risk of virus infection.
Deidre's team was dissatisfied with its previous anti-virus
protection as it caused application conflicts and even allowed
infection from the Sircam virus. It chose to switch to the
award-winning Sophos Anti-Virus along
with the Sophos Enterprise Manager
automatic update tool, as it was easy to install and keep
up-to-date, even for those with little technical knowledge or time
to devote to maintenance. The quality and availability of Sophos's
customer support was also a major factor in the final decision.
"Over the past few years, we have seen more and more people
choose to email us rather than use snail mail, so any disruption to
our email service has an immediate negative impact on our readers,"
said Deidre Sanders, the problem page editor. "When our previous
anti-virus solution let the Sircam virus through we were out of
commission for four days. This was disastrous as we pride ourselves
on timeliness, and when a reader's problem is urgent, we often need
to reply within minutes."
"Small businesses want a product which is easy to use, and value
for money from a company with a good reputation," said Oliver
Carter, UK sales manager at Sophos. "Ideally they would like
something that can be installed and forgotten about, something that
will be updated automatically, and has an inclusive technical
support service which will guide them through if there is a virus
outbreak."
With as many as 800 new viruses emerging each month, it is vital
to keep anti-virus protection constantly updated against the latest
threats. Enterprise Manager allows businesses to automate
anti-virus software updates and even specify the time and frequency
of these downloads. This provides them with full control of their
anti-virus protection. The application downloads both the most
recently issued virus identities and Sophos software updates from a
dedicated corporate website, ensuring that even during periods of
heavy web traffic, updates via Enterprise Manager continue to
arrive at the scheduled time.
About Dear Deidre
Dear Deidre, which appears daily in The Sun newspaper, is the
UK's foremost agony column, with up to 11 million readers. Deidre
Sanders, editor, is based in Bedfordshire and has a team of five
trained counselors to respond to every reader enquiry received.
Read more
about how Dear Deidre protects itself with Sophos
Anti-Virus.
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.