2003

2003

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    Company of the Year

    December 2003 - Sophos has been proclaimed Company of the Year at the 2003 Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards. The judges described Sophos as "a global British success story".

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    Business of the Year 2003

    November 2003 - Sophos has been recognised as one of the most dynamic and successful companies in the UK at the Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards. Sophos achieved second place at the prestigious awards.

     

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    Technology Industry Awards 2003

    November 2003 - Sophos has won the "Best Managed Company" award at the Technology Industry Awards 2003.

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    International Business Awards

    November 2003 - Sophos has been "Highly Commended" at the International Business Awards for its exporting achievement.

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    Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Awards

    November 2003 - Sophos has been recognised at the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Awards for its "Outstanding Achievement".

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    BRW Fast 100

    October 2003 - Sophos Pty Ltd, the Sydney-based subsidiary of Sophos, has been named as one of the fastest growing companies in Australia for the second year running.

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    CBI/Growing Business Awards 2003

    October 2003 - Sophos has been named as a finalist for the title "Company of the Year" at the CBI/Growing Business Awards.

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    CRN Channel Awards 2003

    September 2003 - Sophos has been named as a finalist in the Channel Awards 2003, run by Computer Reseller News. The winner will be announced in November.

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    Computing Awards for Excellence

    August 2003 - Sophos has been named as a finalist for the title "Vendor of the Year" in the Computing Awards for Excellence.

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    EnterpriseVision

    August 2003 - Sophos has received awards for "Best Enterprise Vendor" and "Best Vendor Presentation" at EnterpriseVision.

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    Sophos, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Anti-Virus

    July 2003 - Gartner Inc., a leading IT research and advisory firm, has placed Sophos on its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Anti-Virus, 1H03, a report which compares leading vendors of enterprise anti-virus software.

    In the research note about this Magic Quadrant, Gartner praises Sophos for providing "a top quality detection engine, superior customer service and broad platform support".

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    PC Magazine

    April 2003 - Sophos customer, Pilot Travel Centers, featured in PC Magazine, reveals the advantages of using Sophos over other anti-virus vendors.

     

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    Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100

    April 2003 - Sophos has been named one of Britain's top 100 unquoted companies for the second year running in the annual Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 league table.

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    Deloitte & Touche Indy 100

    April 2003 - Sophos has been named one of the UK's fastest growing companies at the Deloitte & Touche Indy 100 Awards 2003.

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    Butler Group analyst report

    February 2003 - Butler Group, Europe's leading IT analyst company, has produced a report on Sophos and its products.

    The report, entitled "Technology Evaluation and Comparison Report", examines Sophos and its products. In the full report Butler Group described Sophos as "the current market leader because of the quality of its anti-virus solutions and service. It is also flexible in its ability to tailor solutions to match different enterprises' needs." Moving into the future, Butler Group said that Sophos "likely to remain a leader with its excellent recognition and best-of-breed status in the market place."

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    West Coast Checkmark

    Sophos PureMessage for Exchange 2003 and Sophos PureMessage for Unix have been awarded West Coast Labs Checkmark for detection of in-the-wild viruses.

     

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    West Coast Checkmark

    December 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded Level 2 Checkmark by West Coast Labs for detecting and disinfecting 100% of the viruses in the wild.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    November 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT Server has been awarded Level 2 Checkmark by West Coast Labs for disinfecting 100% of the viruses in the wild.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    November 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded Level 1 Checkmark by West Coast Labs for detecting 100% of the viruses in the wild.

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    Virus Bulletin

    November 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won its 22nd VB 100% award to date.

    Sophos Anti-Virus was tested by Virus Bulletin for its detection rates, lack of false alarms and speed of scanning. Sophos outperformed a number of competing products during this test, conducted on Windows 2003 Server.

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    ICSA Labs

    November 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded ICSA certification for detection and disinfection of 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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    eWEEK

    September 2003 - eWEEK Labs recommends PureMessage for organisations that must allow users to opt out of anti-spam filtering and for businesses that want to filter more than spam and target other unwanted e-mail.

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    LinuxWorld - Product Excellence Award Winner

    August 2003 - IDG World Expo and UniForum Association have selected PureMessage as the "Best Sys Admin Tool". The award was presented at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

     

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    Perl.com

    August 2003 - Perl.com has reviewed PureMessage for its spam detection capabilities, concluding that PureMessage "essentially works out of the box - it asks a number of simple questions when you install and set it up, and assuming you get these right, no further configuration will be required."

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    Virus Bulletin

    August 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won its 21st VB 100% award to date.

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

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    Secure Computing

    July 2003 - SC Magazine tested Sophos Enterprise Manager and praised its ability to assist system administrators in protecting their entire company against the latest viruses.

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    Sophos, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Anti-Virus

    July 2003 - Gartner Inc., a leading IT research and advisory firm, has placed Sophos on its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Anti-Virus, 1H03, a report which compares leading vendors of enterprise anti-virus software.

    In the research note about this Magic Quadrant, Gartner praises Sophos for providing "a top quality detection engine, superior customer service and broad platform support".

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    InfoWorld

    June 2003 - Sophos shines in a comparative test by providing solid anti-virus protection that is easy to install and manage.

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    Virus Bulletin

    June 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won its 20th VB 100% award 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.

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    PC Magazine

    April 2003 - Sophos customer, Pilot Travel Centers, featured in PC Magazine, reveals the advantages of using Sophos over other anti-virus vendors.

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    VARVision

    April 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been nominated "Best Product: Networking technologies" at VARVision, the leading industry event for bringing the channel's key VARs face-to-face with emerging product and service vendors.

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    West Coast Checkmark

    April 2003 - Sophos announced today that its flagship product, Sophos Anti-Virus, has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.66 for NetWare has again successfully been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark level 1, providing further independent 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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  • UnixReview

    February 2003 - UnixReview has tested PureMessage for its spam detection capabilities, concluding "PureMessage is a fine application. The installation is painless, administration is fairly easy, and the product does a good job of filtering spam and attachments. It's easy to administer and very configurable."

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    Butler Group analyst report

    February 2003 - Butler Group, Europe's leading IT analyst company, has produced a report on Sophos and its products.

    The report, entitled "Technology Evaluation and Comparison Report", examines Sophos and its products. In the full report Butler Group described Sophos as "the current market leader because of the quality of its anti-virus solutions and service. It is also flexible in its ability to tailor solutions to match different enterprises' needs." Moving into the future, Butler Group said that Sophos "likely to remain a leader with its excellent recognition and best-of-breed status in the market place."

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    West Coast Checkmark

    February 2003 - Sophos's flagship product has yet again achieved West Coast Labs Checkmark certification.

    Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.66 for Windows 95/98 and Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.66 for Windows NT Server have again successfully 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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    PC Pro

    February 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has been declared overall winner of PC Pro magazine's comparative test of corporate anti-virus solutions, beating products from Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro amongst others.

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    Virus Bulletin

    February 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus has won its 19th VB 100% award to date.

    Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT 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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    ICSA Labs

    January 2003 - Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows has been awarded ICSA certification for disinfection.

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

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