You'd be loony to go without antivirus protection on your Windows boxes. True, Windows is more popular with malware coders around the world, because it offers more of an attack surface. PCs get viruses, Macs don't, right? Wrong.
REVIEW OF SOPHOS FOR MAC SOFTWARE
REVIEW OF SOPHOS FOR MAC PC
The PC Mark 10 Extended test was 1,645 without PC Mark installed. That puts it on par with Avast, AVG, Eset, F-Secure, and Windows Defender while Comodo, Kasperky, Symantec, and Trend Micro all scored higher.įor our in-house performance tests, Sophos Home did moderately well. Sophos scored a 98, meaning it missed two threats. SE Labs also has something called a protection score, which is a count of how many times a security suite protected its host system. Kaspersky, Symantec, and Trend Micro all scored higher. SE Labs’ scores tend to be lower than the other testing houses, so to put that 95 percent in perspective, Sophos Home tied with AVG, and was in the same tier as Avast, AVG, Eset, and Windows Defender. In its Q4 2019 report, SE Labs gave Sophos Home Premium a AAA rating with a 95 percent protection rate. Of the testing houses we track, only SE Labs has tested Sophos Home recently. “Managing app access, however, is something we constantly monitor and potentially will roll out in the future based on customer demand,” a Sophos representative said.Īn active scan on the desktop with Sophos Home Premium. MacOS has Screen Time, for example, and Microsoft Family offers similar parental controls. The reason being that modern operating systems have similar features already built in. We asked Sophos about this and the company said it doesn’t have plans to expand parental controls outside of web filtering. Other tools, however, such as limiting or tracking screen time, or managing access to certain apps aren’t available. It’s easy enough to block sexually explicit sites using the web filtering options. Sophos Home is also lacking any kind of serious parental controls. That may be intentional to avoid having too much personal file system information contained on Sophos’ end.
It’s possible to scan specific folders locally by choosing Scan with Sophos Home from the right-click context menu but there are no remote options.
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It would be nice to see a wider variety of scans that are typical for home antivirus suites such as full system scans, quick scans, custom scans, and so on.
The latter removes malware, adware, browser cookies, and other unwanted items and their remnants. In addition to tweaking the Sophos Home configuration there are also buttons towards the top of the dashboard for adding new devices, or launching the clean feature. It’s also possible to block or warn about whole categories of sites, but nothing granular such as blocking a child’s device from accessing a specific site. There are also more expansive controls to schedule scans, set file or folder exceptions, and prevent Sophos Home from blocking a website you want to visit. Exploit Mitigation, for example, has options for protecting browsers, Java applications, preventing privilege escalation, and so on.
When there are more advanced settings they are also binary choices between on and off. An example of Sophos Home Premium’s configuration options.Ĭonfiguration mostly comes down to on/off sliders for each service such as real-time protection, exploit mitigation, and Sophos’ machine learning capabilities.
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