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Protecting Windows with Endpoint Security and ControlAnti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint assessment and control, and firewall

Sophos Endpoint Security and Control protects your Windows network with Sophos Anti-Virus and Sophos Client Firewall, and gives you control over the security status of all managed and unmanaged endpoints. Our single anti-virus client stops viruses, spyware, and adware, and controls unauthorized applications - VoIP, IM, P2P and games - and removable storage devices.

System requirements for Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows, version 7

See also: Sophos Client Firewall system requirements.

  Standard system requirements System requirements for NAC agent
Disk space Windows 2000 and later: 120 MB
Windows NT4: 90 MB
Windows 95/98: 90 MB
20 MB
Memory Windows 2000 and later: Recommended 256 MB
Windows NT4: Recommended 256 MB
Windows 95/98: Recommended 128 MB
512 MB
Platforms supported Windows Server 2008 ††
Windows Vista*
Windows Server 2003*
Windows XP SP1a+*
Windows XP Pro SP1a+
Windows 2000 SP3
Windows 2000 Pro SP3+
Windows 95 (OSR2) **†
Windows 98 (SE)**†
Windows NT4 SP6a **†
WePOS SP2
VMWare ESX 3.0/3.5
VMWare Workstation 5.0
VMWare Server 1.0
Windows Server 2003 64-bit
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows XP SP1a+
Windows Vista
Languages supported
  • English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

    Note: Not all functionality/language support is available on all platforms.

Note: If no service pack is specified, then SP0+ is implied. All platforms require IE 5.5 or above.

* Including AMD64 and Itanium 64-bit versions
** Adware and PUA detection and application control is not available on these platforms
† Sophos Anti-Virus, version 7 is not supported on this platform. Version 4.7 will be installed instead
†† Sophos Anti-Virus 7 is not currently supported on Windows Server 2008 Core installations