Viruses (real and hoaxes) are an ever-growing problem on the Internet, and present an ever-growing problem for end-users and IT departments. Through a site-license acquired by ITS, ENC provides Sophos Anti-Virus software to the College community at no cost to the individual.

In order to install Sophos on your computer, your computer will need to be connected to the ENC network. Installation of Sophos is restricted to current ENC students, faculty and staff only.

Our previous verision of Sophos, version 4, will no longer be supported after February 28, 2007. To ensure that your computer is still protected with antivirus software, you will need to install Sophos version 6. To do so, plese click on the appropriate link below for your operating system. The initial installation process will take a few minutes, so please be patient.

If you are using Internet Explorer, click the appropriate link below, and when the pop-up window appears, click 'Run.' The proocess will now start installing. You may continue to work during the installation, but may experience a slow down in performance until the installation is complete.

If you are using Firefox, right-click the appropriate link below and select "Save link as..." The filename that you use to save the file must end with ".bat". If it does not already, you will need to add that extension to the filename. Save the f ile to your desktop or other convenient l ocation, then go find the saved file and double-click it to run it. The process will now start installing. You may continue to work during the installation, but may experience a slow down in performance until the installation is complete.

For Windows 2000/XP:

Sophos 6 for Windows 2000/XP

For Windows 95/98/Me:

Sophos 6 for Windows 95/98/Me

For Mac OS X:

Please contact the ITS Help Desk for assistance with Mac OS X.