Sophos Anti-Virus

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Sophos Anti-Virus
Developed by Sophos
Latest release 7.3 / April, 2008
OS Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Novell NetWare, Mac OS X, VMS, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO OpenServer/UnixWare and Tru64.
Genre anti-virus
License Proprietary
Website www.sophos.com

Sophos Anti-Virus is an anti-virus, anti-spyware and HIPS software program by Sophos plc, which is aimed primarily at corporate environments. Centralised management is performed via Sophos Enterprise Console. It is believed to be the Anti-Virus used by Gmail .

The SAV Interface software development toolkit allows software developers to integrate the Sophos virus detection engine in their applications in C, Perl, Python, Java, C#, .NET, VBScript or C++.

Sophos has also been the recipient of 40 VB100 awards.