Sophos Home review.Starting with the endpoint, Sophos offers great functionality in terms of it's 'next generation' Intercept X which so far I have to say has been brilliant in stopping ransomware in my experience.

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I will keep you posted with how this goes. You can have up to ten devices registered, which is very generous for freeware. After installation, all settings are done via the web here. You need to register first, confirm your email address, then download the software. If you are, then Sophos freeware is not for you.ĭownloading and installation of the software was trouble-free ( here). Please note that Sophos doesn't have a banking sandbox, but I have never used one, so wasn't that worried about that aspect. Mark Wycislik-Wilson has a good overview of what Sophos does and doesn't do on the TechRadar site.

I downloaded Sophos, and thought I would try it first. While the top contender appears to be BitDefender (Cox, 2017), as the freeware version (a) doesn't work, and (b) wasn't supported, I came up with two alternatives that looked relatively OK in their freeware versions: Kapersky and Sophos. Avast looks like it should be a good option, but as it is now the owner of AVG, and AVG has changed markedly from a 'we will leave you alone' strategy to a 'we will plague you many times a day with offers to upgrade to one of our paid pieces of kit' strategy, I decided to give Avast! a miss (Reubenking, 2017). I was changing from AVG ( here), and had tried BitDefender (epic fail which you can read more about here). For many years I have relied on freeware, which has worked well to date. PC Mag's AV review table by Ruebenking, 2017Īs you may have read recently, I decided to change my home antivirus software.

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