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System Requirements for Antivirus protection for Windows

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  • Updated: 06 Feb 2013

Antivirus protection for Windows: Available in Endpoint Protection

System requirements

 

Platforms supported x86
32-bit		 x86
64-bit		 IA-64 (Itanium)
64-bit		 Minimum
disk space		 Minimum
memory
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows
Windows 8 check check 500 MB 512 MB
Windows 7 including XP mode check check
Windows Vista check check
Windows Server 2012 including Core** check
Windows SBS 2011 check
Windows Server 2008 R2 including Core** check check
Windows Server 2008 including Core** check check check
Windows XP Home SP1a and above check check
Windows XP Pro SP1a and above check check
Windows Server 2003** check check check
Windows Server 2003 R2** check check check
Windows 2000 SP3 check
Windows 2000 Pro SP3 and above check
Windows Netbooks check
Windows XPe SP1a and above* check
Windows Embedded Standard* check
WePOS SP2 check
*For further details on support provided, please see the Knowledgebase article Windows XP embedded computers - support available
**For further details on cluster support, please see the Knowledgebase article Endpoint Security and Control and cluster servers
Virtualization platforms supported
VMware vSphere/ESX
VMware Workstation
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Citrix XenServer
For further details on support for virtualization platforms provided, please see the Knowledgebase article Endpoint Security and Control: Support for virtualization platforms
Sophos Client Firewall
Requires Pentium class 300 MHz processor
Windows 7 check check 100 MB 512 MB
Windows Vista check check
Windows XP Pro SP1a+ check check
Windows XP Home SP1a+ check
Windows 2000 Pro SP3+ check
NAC Agent
Windows 7 check check 20 MB 512 MB
Windows Vista check check
Windows Server 2008* check check
Windows Server 2008 R2* check
Windows XP Pro SP1 and above check
Windows Server 2003* check check
Windows Server 2003 R2* check check
Windows 2000 SP4 check
*Server O/S support is for the dissolvable agent only.
SafeGuard PrivateCrypto for file-based encryption
Windows 7 check check 20 MB 512 MB
Windows Vista check check
Windows XP Home SP2+ check check
Windows XP Pro SP2+ check check
Windows 2000 SP4+ check
Sophos SafeGuard Disk Encryption for full-disk encryption
Windows 7 check check 300 MB 1 GB
Windows Vista SP1+ check check
Windows XP Home SP2+ check 300 MB 512 MB
Windows XP Pro SP2+ check
Languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. However, not all language support is available on all platforms.
For our encryption components, language support is English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and German.

System requirements for all Sophos products

 
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