11 Mar 2004
Sophos receives prestigious German TÜV certificate
Sophos is the first vendor of anti-virus and anti-spam software
to have received a certificate from the German Association for
Technical Inspection (TÜV). The certificate was awarded for
Sophos's flagship product, Sophos Anti-Virus.
TÜV Saarland awarded the certificate after conducting a
comprehensive test of four email providers and the virus protection
offered by each of them.
The test focused on virus detection rates, whether any false
positives were discovered, and the efficiency of the anti-virus
software. In total, the different anti-virus products were tested
against 367 different file, macro and script viruses.
Sophos Anti-Virus proved itself to provide comprehensive
protection with a 100% virus detection rate for the GMX email
service, receiving an "excellent" rating. Sophos Anti-Virus became
the first virus protection product to be certified by TÜV
Saarland.
GMX and another provider achieved 100% virus protection during
the tests, whilst other email providers who offered free virus
protection, only achieved a detection rate of 54%.
The full testing results can be viewed at www.tekit.de.
About Sophos
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.