Sophos SAV Interface

Key features
SAV Interface™ enables users of a wide range of standalone industry-standard applications to benefit from high-speed integration with the Sophos virus detection engine, seamlessly protecting business networks from viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware and adware.

Award-winning virus protection

• Effectively guard against viruses and other threats in all web or email traffic entering or leaving through a third-party application, including compressed attachments, with Sophos' Behavioral Genotype technology
• Monitor email, web and FTP traffic in real time on compliant gateway applications

Fast, efficient performance

• Preserve end-user productivity with scanning speeds 20-30 times quicker than traditional command-line virus scanners
• Enjoy efficient memory usage thanks to a single multi-threading copy of the Sophos virus detection engine to process all requests

Simple integration and management

• Choose your preferred integration method and language for your organization's environment and skills
• Reduce administrative overhead by automatically receiving reports of virus incidents

Trusted performance and support

• Benefit from over 20 years of expertise that has earned Sophos market-leading recognition from analysts such as Gartner
• Receive free, constant, automatic SophosLabs™ updates and upgrades for new releases, 24/7 Sophos in-house technical support with no hidden costs

Tech specs

System requirements

• Windows
  Windows 95/98/Me and NT4
  
  
• Linux on Intel (i386)
  Red Hat 5.1/5.2/6.0/6.1/7.2/8/9
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1/3/4/5
  Suse 6/7/8/9.0/9.1/9.2/9.3
  openSUSE 10.0/10.1/10.2/10.3
  Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8/9/10
  TurboLinux 6/7/8/10
  
  
• Linux on Cavium
  
  
• FreeBSD
  4.11/4.5/4.8/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/6/7 on Intel (i386)
  
  
• HP-UX
  11iv1/11iv2 on HP-PA
  11iv2/11iv3 on Itanium 2
  
  
• AIX
  5.2/5.3/6.1 on PowerPC
  
  
• Solaris
  Solaris 9/10 on Intel (i386)
  Solaris 10 on AMD64
  Solaris 9/10 on SPARC
  
  
• SCO
  UnixWare 7.1.4 on Intel (i386)
  
  
• OpenVMS
  5.4-3 on VAX
  7.x on Alpha
  8.2/8.3 on Itanium 2
  
  
• NetWare
  4.2/5.0/5.1/6.0/6.5
  Open Enterprise Server
  
  
• Mode of operation
  Windows®, COM-compliant Dynamic Link Library (DLL) or out-of-process non-compliant service.
  UNIX platforms, OpenVMS: shared library, supplied in binary form or networking APIs.
  NetWare: NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs).
  
  
• Minimum memory requirements
  32-bit systems: 35 MB RAM (including virus data)
  64-bit systems: 45 MB (including virus data)
  
  
• Minimum disk space: 25 MB
  
  

Sophos SAV Interface Datasheet