If you are a first time installer please make sure your computer does not have any anti-virus software on it. If you have Sophos anti-virus version 4 or below, you will need to uninstall it first. To uninstall please use the following instructions. ( How to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus (Windows XP | Windows 98). Once your computer is free of any Anti-Virus software or has Sophos version 5 or higher, you can use the following link to install the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus. Please note that if you are off campus, you must establish a VPN connection to Brooklyn College before Sophos can be downloaded.

SOPHOS is the college's enterprise-wide virus protection solution. It protects every tier of the Brooklyn College IT infrastructure, including desktops and servers. The SOPHOS virus engine is updated automatically throughout the week to deal with new virus threats and these updates are then propagated to the many desktop and server systems on campus. Since your workstation virus definitions are updated when you start up your computer, be sure to shut down and restart your systems regularly and to make sure that SOPHOS is loaded on your system.

Please note that licensing rules require that you access the download page from on campus. If you are off campus, you must access the page via a VPN.

Once Sophos file is downloaded you have to manually configure Auto - updating for Sophos.

1. Locate the Sophos Anti-Virus icon in the system tray, right-click the icon to display a menu, and select Configure updating.
2. In the properties for Sophos Auto Update dialog box, click the Primary server tab and set the source for updates.
3. Please use this addresses from which Sophos Anti-Virus will usually fetch updates:
   • For Mac OS - http://emlib.brooklyn.cuny.edu/esosx/ (click to view)
   • WIN NT - http://emlib.brooklyn.cuny.edu/esnt/
   • Win9x - http://emlib.brooklyn.cuny.edu/es9x/
   • LINUX - http://emlib.brooklyn.cuny.edu/unixinst/linux/
   • UNIX - http://emlib.brooklyn.cuny.edu/unixinst/

As username and password you should use your BC email credentials.

   » Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux on Intel using libc6 click here (use wget command to get the files)
   » Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux on Intel using libc6 w glibc 2.2 click here (use wget command to get the files)
   » Sophos Anti-Virus for HP-UX on HP-PA (4.27)click here

*A Zip file is a compressed file. Many files distributed over the Internet are first 'zipped' to make the file size as small as possible. Before you can use the programs, you must 'unzip' them with an application such as WinZip or PKZIP for Windows. For more information, visit http://www.sophos.com/support/faqs/howtouse.html