How does Sophos work with home dial up connections?
This applies to both Windows and Mac OS X users. Once a month during a Sophos update you will receive an automatic product upgrade. This update normally takes about 30 minutes to download on a 56k modem. There can be much larger updates provided if Sophos makes major changes to the product. The upgrade provided in November 2006, which enabled Sophos Anti-virus to run on Microsoft Windows Vista (Microsoft’s newest version of Windows, scheduled to be released to the public at the end of January 2007) was such a change. That upgrade was around 30MB in size and took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to download. To assist both Windows and Mac OS X dial up users with knowledge of when a larger then normal upgrade occurs we have created a listserve. Once you are added you will receive an email letting you know about future Sophos updates that have larger then normal upgrades. This will allow you to schedule a time when you can dial up and leave your computer connected for enough time to receive th
