Security company Sophos has yet again applauded the performance of its Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.0 tuning on Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista. This is not the first time that Sophos' security products proved to seamlessly integrate with Vista, delivering a high standard of protection, however, it is a first when it comes to the 64-bit Business edition of the platform. Following recent tests, Virus Bulletin magazine awarded Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.0 with the accolade of VB100. The recent VB100 award is the 39th time that Sophos' products were recognized among the top security solutions available worldwide.

"Virus Bulletin tested 20 different anti-virus products for their detection rates, lack of false alarms, and speed of scanning on the Windows 64-bit Vista platform. Sophos successfully detected all of the in-the-wild viruses (as well as identifying 100% of the file, polymorphic, worms and DOS viruses) with no false alarms, outperforming a number of other vendors," Sophos revealed in a press release.

Back in February 2007, concomitantly with the release of Vista to the general public, Sophos was awarded its 36th VB100 following tests conducted on the 32-bit versions of the latest Windows platform. At that time, Sophos outperformed security vendor McAfee and even Microsoft, in protecting x86 Windows Vista. Also, at the beginning of June, the VB100 award recognized the quality of Sophos' security on Windows XP. On 64-bit Vista, Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.0 stopped all malware instances thrown at it including malicious code in-the-wild, in-the-wild (on-access), file infector, worms and bots, DOS, and Macros, all with zero false positives.

"Sophos Anti-Virus performed splendidly during tests on 64-bit Windows Vista with its in-depth configuration options, impressive speed and excellent detection rates," said John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin. "By protecting against all the in-the-wild viruses without false positives, Sophos has proved itself worthy of another VB100 award."