Commercial-grade Security for the home.
The same trusted security that protects millions of business computers worldwide is now free for personal and non-commercial use. letting you protect up to ten computers per account.
SOPHOS Home Antivirus FREE (up to 10 Computers Per Account)
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The Sophos UTM for home users has very little removed and does far more than just a firewall. Eg. bandwidth control, internet proxy, usage reports, guest wireless portal, web filtering and more. It is also a complex beast to set up but if you have a purpose its worth it. I know someone who is sharing their internet to the neighborhood in an internet blackspot and is able to control bandwidth etc using UTM.
link doesnt work?
that UTM is a firewall only?
edit: work firewall
Detection seems pretty decent but performance impact is higher than some others with better detection:
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
I wouldn't choose this over Avira (which works well apart from the occasional popup).
Cool chart, but missing Symantec/Norton.
Avira had 7.6 performance, Sophos had 16.
Yes, that is the impact on the system. Sophos slowed the system down slightly more, mainly when copying files and archiving/unarchiving:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/av…
Symantec pulled out of testing in 2012. Their arguments have some merit but I think it was more that they were dropping down the charts:
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security-software/310393-syma…
Thanks.
Symantec pulled out quite sometime ago, because they were rated worst than everyone else and said, "Screw you guys, we're going home."
+1, I'll be using this.
My work uses Sophos. Doesn't stop users who are dedicated and really want to get a virus. For me it works / I've never had issues.
Do you have a computer?
BitDefender all the way!
Stop defending bit
My bitdefender licence has ~110 days left, is this free for a lifetime?
Depends how long you live…
Sophos mac has always been free, but this is good to replace bitdefender
Sophos for mac has dropped off this year. Lower detection rates and high system impact compared to the others, but free is free…
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/sophos-antivirus-mac-home-edition,review-2345.html
https://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/mac-os-x-under-attack-10-security-packages-put-to-the-test/Yeah, true, It has poor malware detection. I trust ESET and Avast.
Avast Free tries to install a lot of crapware products though. Most people just want an anti-virus, but no they're installing a firewall, mail checker, and a dozen other things.
Sophos have a good reputation in the corporate world, some serious financial institutions have/are using Sophos AV.
Keen to give this a go, thanks for the post.
I'll try it as an alternative to BitDefender Free edition.
Windows 10 support is a plus, BitDefender Free edition is not Windows 10 compatible yet.
Finally it's time for me to ditch Microsoft Security essential. I'll give it a go.. Cheers.
I'd stay away. Still have bad memories of it
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/20/sophos-antimalware-…
Was a pain to clean upESET (for PC)
Sophos (for Mac)/2c.
/4c
"Commercial-grade Security for the home"
Can anyone honestly tell me the different between Commercial-grade vs resistance-grade Sophos in term of their daily virus definition update?
Ain't they sharing the same daily virus definition update?
My company has been selling and testing different antivirus for years, the best antivirus software company is the one who will react quickly to resolve their issue. They have hiccups mostly happen during OS upgrade! Otherwise, choose the one consume less memory and provide quick technical support.
Can't single out the best Antivirus but personally I think companies use Sophos's UTM so it make sense to use its endpoint! Sophos don't believe in home market and don't have the infrastructure to provide technical support for "Dad and Mum".
So why support a company who doesn't support you? If you are IT Manager, then do your proper research man!
A spreadsheet taking an extra 3 seconds to open is no big deal.
Your game continually freezing and stuttering due to scanning is.Businesses and home users do use computers differently.
The fact is that they are sharing the same update, means the protection level is the same! Commercial grade is no different to home grade in term of protection level. Commercial grade comes with central manage console and that is the main different.
First they don't share the same definitions. Sophos is known as being "for business". Other antivirus products which use completely different definitions are known as being "for home".
In any case what you're saying is the anti-virus engine doesn't matter, only the definitions. That makes no sense. If that were true why do you think they'd bother developing two different engines? Different engines have different behaviour, will catch different threats and have different impact on application speed and memory footprint on your system.
Agreed!Sophos does not have home user market at all!
Please give example of which antivirus software has 2 antivirus engine? They may have 2,3 or even 4 different brand of engine within core for different approach to catch viruses. Thx!
When Symantec and Norton diverged they had different engines.
It's not uncommon for the free 2 versions behind engine that is given away to be on an old engine while the new product is on a rewritten "improved" engine (whether or not it is actually better)
Is this better than Avast/AVG?
"The Sophos UTM Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner!" ????
Also runs well on ESXi :)
Sophos UTM is a different product to Sophos Antivirus. Sophos UTM is a dedicated firewall to protect a network from external threats (i.e. over the Internet), whereas Sophos Antivirus provides antivirus protection for computers it's installed on.
For example, a UTM (without endpoint protection) wouldn't be able to intercept a virus-infected USB stick that you plug in to your computer.
If you just want the free antivirus, don't go for the UTM.
Had to unistall after less than a day, it was freezing/crashing Chrome.
Great deal I signed up an account and got it installed so far so good. no slow downs
read some reviews on sophos on av compartives and dennis technology labs which seemed to suggest that sophos was poor.
a quick google and I found this too…
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-…
We are trailing these guys at work at the moment, good to see they are starting to offer options for the home users….