Sophos enables Second Life ban
Playing Second Life at the Office? Better enjoy it while it lasts.
That's if your employer uses security software from Sophos and is keen on getting you to do work, rather than hang out in a virtual world. Sophos is adding an application control feature to its antivirus products that will let businesses block Second Life.
According to Sophos, a lot of system administrators want to put a lock on games. In an online Sophos poll, 90.4 percent of participants wanted the ability to block games at work, 62 percent said it was even essential. The poll had 450 participants, Sophos said.
Sophos launched application control features last October. It said the features would let business users of its products control employee use of applications. I am actually surprised that the Sophos tool couldn't block Second Life from the start.
Meanwhile, Second Life users are being warned that their personal information may be at risk. In an official blog post over the weekend, the Second Life team at Linden Lab said they had sent an e-mail to 1,138 "Second Life residents" urging them to check on their credit card security since their information may have been breached.
The e-mail was a follow-up to the discovery of a potential database security breach last fall, according to the blog post.
Sophos isn't the only security software company to provide application control features. Altiris (recently
