Why do you need antivirus software?

Viruses can do a number of malicious things to your computer and your office network. Many are familiar with viruses that cause the PC to no longer function. However, these may not be the worst viruses.

A virus may corrupt the data in one or more of your applications in subtle ways. You may not even notice that this has happened. Yet, your data is rendered inaccurate. Since you are not aware of this inaccuracy, extensive damage can be done to your organization.

There have also been reports of viruses which send portions of your data, data which may have been confidential, to public internet newsgroups. Obviously, this can damage your organization. Especially damaging to your reputation as well are those which send your data to pornographic sites amd make it look as though you have sent it.

Antivirus software can help you secure your computing infrastructure and minimize the possibility of these things happening.

What about the cost of the antivirus software? You probably should read the paragraphs above once again and ask yourself what the costs of these happenings would be to your organization and to you personally.

Why Sophos? Sophos' scanning engine is highly rated by organizations whose job it is to rate antivirus software. Sophos' scanning is quicker and less burdensome on computer operation than competing products. Sophos' update process is faster and uses fewer resources than competitors update systems. Sophos has scanning engines for each flavor of Windows, and also native engines for Linux, Unix and Novell as well.

And when you purchase an Enterprise subscription for your company, your employees are permitted to use Sophos on their home PC's at no additional cost, further protecting your office network in those cases when employees do some work at home and then bring files back to their office PC.