Free version of Sophos Home

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Av Gurus

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Sophos Home (currently in beta) protects every Mac and PC in your home from malicious software, inappropriate websites and viruses.
It uses the same award-winning technology that IT professionals trust to protect their business systems. Best of all, you can manage security settings for the whole family from any browser.
Please note that this free version of Sophos Home is for private and non-commercial use, letting you protect up to ten computers per account.
If you would like to use Sophos in a business, commercial, or government organization, we invite you to try
Sophos Cloud for free here.

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I installed on virtual machine and here are myfirst expressions:

Installation file are 15MB
Installation take about 15-20min
Interface is simple , clean and basic - everything is on web and settings through the browser
RAM usage about 240MB

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bunchuu

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Is it only antivirus and not contain any firewall?
RAM consumption less than bitdefender
 

Online_Sword

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Do you have a link to the webpage of this program?:)

When I search "Sophos Home" on google, I can only find the home edition of Sophos UTM.

Is there any proactive protection?

I have the same question.
 

Enju

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I have not tried this free version, but I think it may be a common practice of antivirus vendors to remove some useful features from their free versions.
Endpoint protection is free too for home UTM users! You are allowed to install it on 10 pcs. :)
 
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woomera

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thanks for sharing, to those who wanna try this keep this in mind that it wont install if you have any other AV installed on your machine.
 

bunchuu

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Install it in a VM, register the appliance, download installer and remember the admin password then delete the VM = unlimited installations without any UTM. Don't tell anyone! :D
So, this is your trick to get XG firewall? nice move, mate ;)
 

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Sophos Home (currently in beta) protects every Mac and PC in your home from malicious software, inappropriate websites and viruses.
It uses the same award-winning technology that IT professionals trust to protect their business systems. Best of all, you can manage security settings for the whole family from any browser.
Please note that this free version of Sophos Home is for private and non-commercial use, letting you protect up to ten computers per account.
If you would like to use Sophos in a business, commercial, or government organization, we invite you to try
Sophos Cloud for free here.

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I installed on virtual machine and here are myfirst expressions:

Installation file are 15MB
Installation take about 15-20min
Interface is simple , clean and basic - everything is on web and settings through the browser
RAM usage about 240MB

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Here are some detection pictures

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Is it worth it? Then I would uninstall Avast ;)
 

Enju

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So, this is your trick to get XG firewall? nice move, mate ;)
XG sadly doesn't have the endpoint management, they moved it to their "cloud" based management system. So if you want to try this, you have to install the UTM version. Also the firewall has to be installed on a dedicated system/hyperisor, otherwise it won't be all that useful.;)
 
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