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Using Sophos AV for Mac across networks

nigelh

Because my partner was having all sorts of issues with the AV utility installed on her Windows 7 laptop, I decided to try checkig it using SAV from my Mac via the home network. Because it was pretty slow via WiFi, I hooked up both computers with Ethernet and, I have to say, that ran pretty fast. It managed to check out her whole istallation in about 6-7 hours.

My question is, how valid are the results? No threats were found. I'm assuming that the Sophos utility on the Mac does know about all threats applicable to Windows, but is my assumption a good one?

It's a real pity that Sophos (surprisingly!) do not make an equivalent AV utility for Windows (though I'm sure that most of their software IS applicable to Windows environments), because my partner is having a really hard time finding an internet security package (paid or otherwise) that WORKS properly on Windows, without stupid failures. We're still looking for the optimum solution for her system, but in general, support from the makers of Windows AV/IS software also seems to be quite abysmal!

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    Hi Diz,

    With reference to your link to the page on Sophos for less than 100 users, I only just got around to downloading the free trial of the endpoint software, but then ran into a slight problem. If I've understood correctly, the Management Enterprise Console is designed to run on a network server and end-user computers are installed from there - which makes a lot of sense for business environment sysadmins who are dealing with a large number of end-user machines physically spreaf all over a large office building.

    So, what I'm wondering is, if one wanted to use the endpoint software on a couple of computers on a home network, obviously one doesn't want to go to the expense and hassle of buying and running an MS Server(!), just to install and run this endpoint software. What to do then? I note that the info says that the Console CAN be run on unsupported platforms (ie non-server systems) - and when I tried to install it on one Windows 7 laptop here, the check did say that it was an unsupported OS - but is that necessary, or would it be better and easier to just manually install the endpoint software modules directly onto the target computers?

    At this stage, it does seem to me that, as all of the modules necessary for the endpoint software installation obviously exist, the only thing preventing them from being installed on end-user or home computers is the lack of a simplified installer - so I'm wondering why it is that Sophos don't choose to compete in the home market with such a simplified (but still paid for) package?

    I realise that I may well be overlooking one thing though: namely, that perhaps the server is also required when the endpoint software is running on the end-user computers? Is it that that is where the database(s) of malware info are stored and used when endpoint scans are being carried out?

    I'd be grateful for some clarification at this point!

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    Hi Diz,

    With reference to your link to the page on Sophos for less than 100 users, I only just got around to downloading the free trial of the endpoint software, but then ran into a slight problem. If I've understood correctly, the Management Enterprise Console is designed to run on a network server and end-user computers are installed from there - which makes a lot of sense for business environment sysadmins who are dealing with a large number of end-user machines physically spreaf all over a large office building.

    So, what I'm wondering is, if one wanted to use the endpoint software on a couple of computers on a home network, obviously one doesn't want to go to the expense and hassle of buying and running an MS Server(!), just to install and run this endpoint software. What to do then? I note that the info says that the Console CAN be run on unsupported platforms (ie non-server systems) - and when I tried to install it on one Windows 7 laptop here, the check did say that it was an unsupported OS - but is that necessary, or would it be better and easier to just manually install the endpoint software modules directly onto the target computers?

    At this stage, it does seem to me that, as all of the modules necessary for the endpoint software installation obviously exist, the only thing preventing them from being installed on end-user or home computers is the lack of a simplified installer - so I'm wondering why it is that Sophos don't choose to compete in the home market with such a simplified (but still paid for) package?

    I realise that I may well be overlooking one thing though: namely, that perhaps the server is also required when the endpoint software is running on the end-user computers? Is it that that is where the database(s) of malware info are stored and used when endpoint scans are being carried out?

    I'd be grateful for some clarification at this point!

    :1013719
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