

You get all this for free and do not have to install any other add-ons on your PC or Mac. This is especially so for those who want a light antivirus program with advanced malware protection. So is Sophos Home worth checking out? My answer to this is yes. As long as you have installed the program, it will block any malicious websites. What I found to be good about this for Sophos is that it does not require installation of browser add-ons to get it to work. This is important to have if you spend most of your time online browsing through different websites and discovering new ones. Even as I was scanning my laptop, there was no impact on performance as I have seen with other products.īesides scanning your hard drive, Sophos Home blocks websites that are known to have viruses and other threats.

How long scanning takes will depend on how many files you have on your device. I think this option should have been there for situations when you want to perform a quick scan. Sophos antivirus home product had a protection accuracy rating of 342/399 (86). There is no option for quick scanning as we have seen on other products out there.

For scanning, Sophos Home has only one option, a full system scan.
SOPHOS HOME MAC REVIEW FOR MAC
The basic function of any antivirus solution is to protect your device. Reviews Sophos Home Premium for Mac Review Sophos Home Premium is a security suite with the right protection, but the setup process is confusing and certain features require that you. In case you were wondering, my laptop has a 2.2 GHz Core i5 (5 th generation) Intel processor, 8GB of RAM and over 800GB of space. It is always running in the background but this did not interfere with the performance of the laptop. This is not the case with Sophos Home, I rarely even noticed it was there when using my laptop. We all know that some antivirus programs can slow down your computer. I would have hoped that Sophos had it in a different way to have this dashboard offline so that you do not have to go online every time you want to access the dashboard. Even with that said, you will be sent to the company’s website every time you want to access the dashboard. I found it helpful to have a basic interface as it removes all the unnecessary content that you may not need. From your account page on the website, you can manage your different installations, you can install Sophos Home on 10 different devices from one account. The ‘Home Dashboard’ button on the top will take you to Sophos websites and from there you will be able to manage your account. It is not cluttered and you will have exactly what you are looking for the moment you open it. As I have mentioned above, Sophos Home has a basic interface.
