| The drive towards standardisation and particularly the dominance of a small number of hardware and software vendors has been a double edged sword. On the one hand the process has lowered the costs of ownership of IT systems and allowed them to interact in ways that would have seemed like science fiction just a dozen years ago. On the other hand it has created an environment where the connectivity and ability to transmit information around the world in seconds provides a huge playground for malicious and malevolent pranksters and vandals.
Despite a number of high profile prosecutions there are still plenty of miscreants who would like to wreak havoc on your network and preferably several thousand others. Their weapons of choice are hacking and viruses. Let’s consider computer viruses and how to control them.
Virus is a term that encompasses a wide variety of software code with a huge range of dangers from the merely annoying to the network wrecking. These target all kinds of areas of your workstations, laptops, email systems, network servers, web servers and Internet gateways even damaging your applications and disrupting the set up of machinery.
Even networks that are not connected to the Internet and stand-alone PCs are not immune as viruses and their damaging payloads can find their way onto your machines through infected magnetic disks and CD-ROMs. It would be folly to turn a blind eye to the risks posed by viruses. Without protection your computers will be exposed and the damage to the organisation could be devastating.
As we have seen viruses pose a potential threat across your entire network so the old fashioned approach of workstation is just not good enough especially when new viruses are being set loose everyday. What is needed is a centralised and automated method of virus protection that can propagate updates down to every potential target on the network. It’s called Sophos Anti-Virus.
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 Sophos Anti-Virus offers powerful, centralised and automated anti-virus management while monitoring and protecting each and every possible point of entry including email, floppy disks, CD-ROM and DVD drives, Internet downloads, network drives. Sophos provides a round the clock monitoring service looking for new virus outbreaks and producing “vaccines” against the new threat which are available to you within hours. The new virus signatures and fixes are added to your Sophos Anti-Virus system by an automatic update. These additions are then passed to each computer to protect every element of your system as soon as possible.
Sophos Anti-Virus scales from the stand alone computer to large, distributed networks with mixed network operating systems and desktop environments. It provides an anti-virus service that can be easily managed and extended as the infrastructure changes and grows with the organisation. |
