Sophos Home Premium?
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- Apr 2, 2018
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Free over paid. I don't have any issue at all with Bitdefender Free. No slow down at all. I have used Bitdefender Free over a year now. In addition, I can use VoodooShield along with Bitdefender Free.
- Aug 17, 2013
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We'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't like any of BD products I think Bitdefender is THE most overrated security company in the world. Their support is shocking. I'll probably end up back with WD+CF soon as I really do love that setup. I'm going to give Sophos home premium a fair go though as the license didn't cost me a penny.
- Apr 2, 2018
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I don't think Bitdefender is the most overrated security company in the world. I think Kaspersky is the most overrated security company in the world instead. I'm a cheap stake dude so to me Bitdefender Free + VoodooShield or Windows Defender + VoodooShield is not a bad choice either.
- Mar 29, 2018
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Didn't know there was a work-around. My inexperience is showing.....Would someone be kind enough to advise how I would go about doing this? Would exclusions be in Sophos or Windows? I know, Level 1
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Meh, I just rolled my systems over to SHP as well.. So far flawless and no issues across the Win10 machines we have (all gamers).
Bit Defender Free is trash, and slow-sig Bit Defender with it's sloppy and slow firewall and bugs? Hell no, why are we even talking about that?
Anyway, not sure I want to pair up SHP with anything at this point, it's done so well on the DMZ test machine with all of the modules working in concert. VS? Thinking about it.
- Apr 2, 2018
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- Sep 14, 2014
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I went a bit deeper yesterday and read through some of their whitepapers.
Security Whitepapers for System Administrators and IT Security Specialists | Sophos
Machine Learning: How to Build a Better Threat Detection Model
Your handy guide to machine learning at Sophos
Both were interesting read. One of them describes web-scanning too (to some extent).
Security Whitepapers for System Administrators and IT Security Specialists | Sophos
Machine Learning: How to Build a Better Threat Detection Model
Your handy guide to machine learning at Sophos
Both were interesting read. One of them describes web-scanning too (to some extent).
- Feb 24, 2017
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go through @harlan4096 's malware hub results and go through @Brodyaga 's and see which is overrated.
- Feb 17, 2018
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- Feb 24, 2017
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i did, it was mediocre, so i gave up on it
https://malwaretips.com/threads/mixed-threats-20-23-03-2018.81151/post-720709
i did more testing that time but didnt post it on the hub.
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- Apr 13, 2018
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“Bitdefender is the most overrated security company in the world”. Nowadays, yes you are right. Some years ago I was an active user in an Arabic Security forum which had a forum for testing malware samples. Bitdefender did the most great results even better than Kaspersky. There was a named Black007 who was using Kaspersky on custom settings. He disabled “automatic settings of Kaspersky so that it becomes fully manual and asks the user about everything” Any way the forum discovered a serious bug in Bitdefender in IDS module which did not work in 64 but systems. Ids and AVC “Active Virus Control” are the key for Bitdefender strength. We did post in the Bitdefender forum letting them now about this serious issue but they never responded. I stopped using Bitdefender since then. Sorry for the off-topic but it is worth mentioning
- Aug 17, 2013
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That's one major issue with Bitdefender isn't it, You find a bug, report it, post on their forums about it and they do nothing about it. Bitdefender definitely need to listen to their users more and improve their customer support.
- Apr 13, 2018
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This is not just an issue. If the malware is not caught by signatures nor cloud, it just paypasses Bitdefender Security. This happened on 64x systems. X86 systems were fully protected. I guess Bitdefender addresses this serious issue 4 years later.
- Apr 13, 2018
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One should not judge a product by running one test. Actually it might depends on what a person has in mind about a certain product. I mean if someone like Kaspersky and it fails in a test or another he will justify it by saying no product is perfect. In Sophos case, it is not well-known and I am sure it is a good product. I’m not defending SoPhons but I guess it is a major problem of forums neglecting less known antivirus products.
- Feb 24, 2017
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read the last line again, i ran more tests but didn't publish it on the hub, since they were embarassing
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