Antivirus Software

Overview:

Below you will find anti-virus software offered by the Office of Information Technolgy. Sophos Antivirus is offered at no extra cost for installation on University of Idaho owned computers and is available for home license as well (not managed by OIT).

Sophos Antivirus Software

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Sophos Anti-Virus Software:

Sophos Antivirus for Personal Machines

Any university account can claim a code to use Sophos Home for use on personal machines. This is for home and personal use ONLY as OIT will have no audit or management access to this software. This is not to be installed on university-managed equipment.

Claim your coupon code here: https://home.sophos.com/en-us/employee

A link to the step-by-step guide can be found here: https://support.uidaho.edu/TDClient/40/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=31

Sophos Antivirus for Windows (UI-Owned Machine)

OIT offers Sophos Antivirus to all University of Idaho-owned machines, and should be installed by default. For personal machines, please see the Sophos Home download link above. To manually install on a UI Windows machine, open "Software Center" on your computer, look for the Sophos antivirus package, and install it. A step by step guide can be found at: https://support.uidaho.edu/TDClient/40/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=878

Sophos Antivirus for Mac (UI-Owned Machine)

OIT offers Sophos Antivirus to all University of Idaho-owned machines only. For personal machines, please see the Sophos Home download link above. To install on a UI Mac machine, open Jamf "Self Service" on your computer, look for the Sophos antivirus package, and install it.

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