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SophosLabs is the company's global network of threat analysis centers.

Company profile

Founded in 1985 by Dr. Peter Lammer and Dr. Jan Hruska, Sophos is a privately-owned company and is co-headquartered in Abingdon, UK and Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. The company has subsidiaries and branch offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Spain. The company employs approximately 1,000 staff worldwide. This article is about the year. ... , Abingdon (traditionally known as Abingdon-on-Thames) is a market town in Oxfordshire in Southern England. ... Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized...

Unlike other security companies, Sophos does not produce anti-virus and anti-spam solutions for home users, but instead has always focused on the business market.

In 2006, Steve Munford was named CEO of Sophos, and Hruska and Lammer announced they would remain as co-founders and members of the board of directors. Munford was the president of ActiveState prior to its acquisition by Sophos in 2003, and from 2003 to 2005 was president of Sophos's North American operations. In 2005, he became chief operating officer, responsible for the day-to-day running of the company and its senior management team. Munford holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA from Queen's University. Sophos is a company that makes security software such as anti-virus, anti-spyware,anti-spam and Network Access Control for desktops, e-mail servers, and other network gateways. ... ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services. ... North American redirects here. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... The University of Western Ontario (known as Western, as well as UWO or Western Ontario) is a research university located in London, Ontario. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... Queens University, generally referred to simply as Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian public university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ...

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From September 2003 to February 2006, Sophos served as the parent company of ActiveState, a developer of programming tools for dynamic programming languages. In February 2006, ActiveState became an independent company when it was sold to Vancouver-based venture capitalist firm Pender Financial. ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services. ... Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compilation, if at all. ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ...

Sophos's anti-virus engine and identities are now packaged into Webroot Spy Sweeper with Anti-Virus. Spy Sweeper is proprietary software sold by Webroot Software, which detects and removes spyware on personal computers that run Microsoft Windows. ...

Research

SophosLabs specialists analysed the global spread of spam messages. As a part of the Sophos global spam monitoring network the company's spam filters, installed in different companies, were able to catch spam messages. Thus SophosLabs experts were able to discover that during the third quarter of 2007 the USA was at the top of the list among 12 spam-countries. The United States registered 28.4% of global spam. The second came South Korea, with 5.2% of global spam.^[1]

Products

• Sophos Anti-Virus
• Sophos Mobile Security
• Sophos Anti-Rootkit
• Sophos Client Firewall
• Sophos PureMessage for Windows/Exchange
• Sophos PureMessage for Notes/Domino
• Sophos PureMessage for UNIX
• Sophos Email Appliances (ES1000 and ES4000)
• Sophos SAV Interface
• Sophos Web Appliance (WS1000)
• Sophos Network Access Control
• Sophos Small Business Solutions

Sophos Anti-Virus is an anti-virus program by Sophos plc, which is aimed primarily at corporate environments. ...

References

See also

• ActiveState Komodo

Komodo is an award-winning, professional (IDE) for dynamic languages. ...

External links

• Official website