2002

2002

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    Deloitte & Touche Fast 500

    December 2002 - Sophos has been recognised as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu European Technology Fast 500 competition.

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    Asia/Pacific Security Software Tracker

    November 2002 - Sophos has been named the fastest growing secure content management software company in Australia according to industry analyst group IDC. IDC also reports that Sophos doubled its market share in the six month period to June 2002.

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    Tech Track 100

    November 2002 - Sophos has been presented with the "international expansion" award at the Tech Track 100 awards ceremony in London.

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    Deloitte & Touche Fast 50

    November 2002 - Sophos appears in Deloitte & Touche's fifth annual ranking of London and South East England's fastest growing technology companies.

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    BRW Fast 100

    November 2002 - Sophos Pty Ltd, the Sydney-based subsidiary of Sophos Plc, has been named as one of the fastest growing companies in Australia.

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    Frost & Sullivan

    November 2002 - Sophos has been confirmed by Frost & Sullivan as delivering the highest levels of customer satisfaction within the anti-virus industry.

    "Sophos has already gained a place on the top of the anti-virus market by having the most satisfied customers as a result of delivering on customers' expectations" - Frost & Sullivan.

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    Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100

    September 2002 - Sophos has been named one of Britain's fastest-growing unquoted technology companies in the second annual Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 league table.

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    Oxfordshire Business Awards

    July 2002 - Dr Jan Hruska and Dr Peter Lammer, joint CEOs and founders of Sophos, have been jointly named as "Business Person of the Year" at the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2002.

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    Tornado Insider 100

    June 2002 - Sophos has been named in the second annual "Tornado Insider 100" list as one of Europe's top emerging private tech companies. The list represents the most promising and innovative emerging companies in the European IT and biotech sectors.

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    Profit Track 100

    April 2002 - Sophos has been named one of Britain's top 100 unquoted companies with the fastest growing profits in the third annual PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 league table.

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    Queen's Award for Enterprise

    21 April 2002 - Sophos has been awarded two prestigious Queen's Awards for Enterprise, the UK's top awards for business performance in the categories of 'Innovation' and 'International Trade'.

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    ICSA Labs

    December 2002 - Sophos MailMonitor for SMTP (Windows and Linux) and for Notes/Domino have been awarded ICSA certification for detecting all known in-the-wild viruses.

    ICSA Labs is an independent reviewing body - only awarding certification to those products able to perform outstandingly under test conditions.

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    Internet Ogledalo

    December 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been proclaimed "Editor's Choice" in a review by Internet Ogledalo magazine. Sophos Anti-Virus was praised for its management features, updating tools and the breadth of operating systems and platforms covered.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    December 2002 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98, Windows NT Server and Novell NetWare have all been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark Level 1. This provides further verification that Sophos is capable of protecting against all known in-the-wild viruses in both on-demand and on-access modes.

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    Virus Bulletin

    November 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won its 18th VB 100% award to date.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000 Advanced Server was tested for its detection rates, lack of false alarms and speed of scanning. Sophos outperformed a number of competing products.

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    AV-Test.Org

    September 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix has successfully achieved a perfect 100% on-demand detection score against in-the-wild viruses in the latest series of tests conducted by AV-Test.Org. Sophos out performed many competing products.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    September 2002 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98, Windows NT Server and Novell NetWare have all been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark Level 1. This provides further verification that Sophos is capable of protecting against all known in-the-wild viruses in both on-demand and on-access modes.

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    Federal Computer Week

    5 August 2002 - Sophos outperforms Network Associates and Symantec in a test conducted by Federal Computer Week: "The Sophos technology worked wonderfully in our test environments and trapped every single virus we threw in its way."

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  • Virus Bulletin

    August 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won yet another VB 100% award - its 17th to date!

    Sophos Anti-Virus for NetWare was tested for its detection rates, lack of false alarms and speed of scanning. Sophos outperformed a number of competing products including NAI McAfee NetShield.

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    ICSA Labs

    July 2002 - Sophos MailMonitor for Exchange 2000 has been awarded ICSA certification for detecting all known in-the-wild viruses.

    ICSA Labs is an independent reviewing body - only awarding certification to those products able to perform outstandingly under test conditions.

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    Virus Bulletin

    June 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won yet another VB 100% award - its 16th to date!

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows XP was tested for its detection rates, lack of false alarms and speed of scanning. Sophos outperformed a number of competing products including Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Panda Antivirus Platinum and Trend PC-cillin.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    May 2002 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98, Windows NT Server and Novell NetWare have all been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark Level 1. This provides further verification that Sophos is capable of protecting against all known in-the-wild viruses in both on-demand and on-access modes.

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    Le Monde Informatique

    19 April 2002 - Le Monde Informatique tested four different network anti-virus products determining that Sophos offered the best security, performance and highest level of technical support.

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    Virus Bulletin

    April 2002 - Virus Bulletin tested 11 different anti-virus products under the Linux platform 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.

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    InfoWorld

    4 March 2002 - "For the strongest security, best performance, technical support, and support for the most desktop platforms, Sophos is the clear winner."

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    West Coast Checkmark

    February 2002 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 95/98, Windows NT Server and Novell NetWare have all been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark LevelĀ 1. This provides further verification that Sophos is capable of protecting against all known in-the-wild viruses in both on-demand and on-access modes.

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    PC Pro

    February 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded first place by PC Pro magazine in a comparative anti-virus review.

    In this test Sophos out-performed McAfee Active Virus Defense and Computer Associates eTrust Anti-Virus.

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    Virus Bulletin

    February 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won yet another VB 100% award - its 15th to date!

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows Me was tested for its detection rates, lack of false alarms and speed of scanning. Sophos outperformed a number of competing products including Computer Associates InoculateIT, Kaspersky Anti-Virus and F-Secure Anti-Virus.

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  • PC Upgrade

    February 2002 - In a head-to-head test published by PC Upgrade magazine, Sophos Anti-Virus surpassed Panda Antivirus Titanium, achieving a perfect 5 out of 5 score.

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    Network News

    30 January 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won the Network News "Recommended Product" award in a comparative test conducted by VNU European Labs.

    Sophos's flagship product fought off competition from Panda Software, F-Secure, Trend Micro, Computer Associates and Kaspersky Labs to secure the award.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    January 2002 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.51 for Windows 95/98, NetWare and Windows NT Server have each been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark LevelĀ 1, providing further independent verification of Sophos's ability to protect its customers from all in-the-wild viruses and other malicious code.

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    AV-Test.Org

    January 2002 - Sophos Anti-Virus has successfully achieved a perfect 100% score in the latest in-the-wild virus detection tests conducted by AV-Test.Org, in both on-demand and on-access modes.

    AV-Test.Org's independent tests evaluated 20 different anti-virus products for their detection rates on the Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional operating systems. Many competing products failed to detect some commonly encountered viruses and did not pass the tests.

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