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Important Antivirus Software Change: Sophos is being replaced If you are an Alverno faculty/staff member or student who has Sophos antivirus software that was provided by Alverno installed on your personally-owned computer, you need to uninstall Sophos and install a different antivirus software program as soon as possible. While Alverno’s Sophos license won’t expire until 4/29/2014, we have already stopped installing software updates on our server and, once our license actually expires, our server will stop receiving new virus definition updates from Sophos. Listed below are Tech Services’ recommendations for other free antivirus software tools you might use instead. Tech Services has decided to replace Sophos with Microsoft’s System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for all campus computers. We are changing tools for several reasons: • Microsoft’s SCEP tool is included for College-owned computers at no additional cost in our existing campus agreement; • Alverno won’t need to pay for Sophos anymore (saving thousands of dollars each year); • Tech Services believes the Microsoft SCEP tool will work as well (or better) than the Sophos software we’ve been using. Recommended FREE antivirus/spyware/malware software for home use: Operating System Recommended software Where to get it Windows 7 or earlier Microsoft Security Essentials http://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/security-essentials-download Windows 8 or later Windows Defender (or visit Comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1. Run the Windows Store to search Windows Update to upgrade to v 8.1 if you for other free tools) have Windows 8.0 Macintosh Avast, ClamXav, or Sophos Reviews of these tools and links to download Antivirus for Mac them can be found at http://download.cnet.com/mac/antivirus- software/ Microsoft provides additional tips for protecting your personal computer from malicious software. Please see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-protect-pc-from-viruses for details. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Service Desk via email at [email protected] or by calling 382-6700. Thank you, Tech Services u:\tech services\articles (for etc and newsnet)\sophos replacement.docx .

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