- May 26, 2014
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Sophos Home Premium is basically the old Sophos Free + Hitman Pro Alert technology (Intercept X is derivated from it).
Sophos Home Premium?
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Sophos Home Premium is basically the old Sophos Free + Hitman Pro Alert technology (Intercept X is derivated from it).
- Apr 21, 2018
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I think it's a very good combination, will lead to a good result. But it lacks something like safe money (KIS), for safe banking (very useful tool) for peace of mind
- Feb 24, 2017
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I disagree, the amount of compatibility issues HMPA still suffers from, Sophos has a lot to fix.I think it's a very good combination, will lead to a good result. But it lacks something like safe money (KIS), for safe banking (very useful tool) for peace of mind
check the HMPA beta thread on Wilders.
SHP. Many people don't realize this but the HMPA aspects of SHP have been re-engineered for InterceptX to avoid false positives. In fact, after weeks of testing I have not been able to trigger an FP on a variety of systems. It has definitely matured into a stable, usable product. HMPA was always an FP nightmare with a lot of issues, SHP doesn't exhibit those issues. Also SHP doesn't seem to partake in any telemetry gathering or spying, and uses all 443 communication channels, KIS certainly can't make that claim.
IMO the top contenders these days are SEPC and SHP. My decision of what to utilize seems to be stuck bouncing between only those two. I've given up on other vendors for various reasons.
- Feb 17, 2018
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An other vendor i know is G Data, also 443 secured.
I decided after a lot of testing to stick with EU products. I like SHP but love G Data.
G Data, Emsisoft and SHP I think were the only three that secure their update and telemetry channels with encryption. In the corporate world, all of them seem to do it.. SEPC, etc.. I am not confortable having a security program operate over unencrypted channels.. Even Kerish Doctor opens a VPN back to their HQ for their updates and cloud based technology to secure the communications. (even though it's L2TP, it's still secured)
- Apr 21, 2018
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What about the BB of SHP when there is no signatures? I searched and found nothing referring to this.Also is there any keylogger protection?(instead of safe money KIS or Safe pay Bitdefender)
AV Protection and detection rate are always related to the team behind the software , so the final product will always be linked to the ingenuity of the developer ,imagine now some of talented developers leave the company will the final product be the same ? don't be a fanboy
One of the great powers of SHP is the heuristic traffic scanner, it's probably equivalent of Heimdal in that area and is one of the few consumer AV suites with heuristic traffic scanning, along with the DNS protection. There are Risk Reduction, Anti-Exploit and Safe Banking. The anti-keylogger aspects are under Safe Banking and utilize HMPA's key input encryption system to defeat keyloggers.
- Feb 24, 2017
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so in short ,there is none, except what tiny bit is in HMPA against ransomwares
- Aug 17, 2013
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KIS has so much more than SHP though, pretty much every module in KIS is top notch. I also found SHP to have a few FP's, which, when combined with no quarantine is a pain in the ass because you have to load the web console up each time. For me, personally SHP has a fair bit of work to do before it can offer the same level of protection as KIS. I'm not too sure how much I trust Sophos either with it being based here in the UK they could very well have a close relationship with GCHQ.I think it's a very good combination, will lead to a good result. But it lacks something like safe money (KIS), for safe banking (very useful tool) for peace of mind
- Aug 17, 2013
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Kaspersky have had this feature for a while too.
Glad to hear it, but this thread isn't about Kaspersky. Literally every thread derailment on this forum is derailed by the same couple of guys talking about Kaspersky.
Seriously, this Kaspersky stuff has transcended mere fascination, and appears to be some sort of concerted effort to stifle all non-Kaspersky discussion. I get it, some people like it.. Great.. Go play with it, click it, keep opening it 50 times a day to check on it. But seriously, can we have ANY discussion on this forum without Kaspersky being injected into it? I can't wait for Kaspersky to get sanctioned (and it's coming), that'll fix things right up and hopefully temper the rabid thread invasions around here.
As surprising as this may sound, many of us around here could care less about Kaspersky. Remember how Triple Helix was with Webroot? Well...
- Aug 17, 2013
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Erm.. I've seen you derail plenty of threads with multiple off topic comments usually Forticlient this or Forticlient that. SHP is a POS as are Symantec products.
I believe one should always relegate puerile statements like this with 'in my opinion' otherwise they appear to be absolute and authoritative, and we know they aren't.
@mekelek I don't feel like its a problem not having an active BB in SHP. I've never encountered any since when I was using G Data many months. I like so far this hybrid-type protection what SHP offers together with encrypted communications. I think it's just in our heads, that we need 'something better' all the time, because us, above-average and higher users, would be safe with just default WD. All these strong 3th party AV's, Kaspersky, Emsisoft, Norton, etc. are more needed for our parents, children, friends, roomates who we share PC with.. we don't need all this. We are just AV enthusiasts and researchers.
- Aug 17, 2013
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You go at me for mentioning Kaspersky when in the post above mine you mentition Emsisoft, Gdata and SEPC. How many times in this thread and others have you derailed them by mentioning SEPC or Forti this and Forti that? Your hypocrisy is astounding.
It's not just my opinion though is it? Sophos have nowhere near the 2 decades long history of offering top grade security like Kaspersky does. You can have digs at me all you like, but I wouldn't take a single bit of your advice when it comes to security I've seen enough from your posts to know you don't really know much at all. CruelSister set you straight about the Symentec/Target issue that you thought you knew all about. Wasn't it only last year that will all your great home security devices and setup that Trend Micro was bypassed on your system and actively sending and recieving data through ALL your network security
Sly - I worked at GCHQ for 10 years, before that I worked at Avira, I've also worked for Cisco and my current posistition is such that I don't even have to work more than 2 day's a week to earn in 3 months what you earn in a year. I've always got on well with you, but I will not be attacked by you especially when your knowledge is inferior to my own for no reason other than mentioning Kaspersky in a SHP thread, when in the post above you mentioned 3 products that have ZERO to do with SHP - Emsosoft, Gdata and SEPC. You derail so many thread talking about Forti that it's unreal.
- Feb 24, 2017
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you missed Panda, it's the weekly shill @ForgottenSeer 58943 is trying to push, this week is SEPC, and he's still repeating last week's SHP shilling.
@ForgottenSeer 58943 you can't start boasting about stone age old features and claiming "the only AV that has it" when in fact most AVs had it ages ago, hence @ZeroDay mentioned Kaspersky
the US can sanction whatever they want, but you trying to "sanction" the mentioning of Kaspersky is just hilarious
- Aug 17, 2013
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KIS is a superior product to SHP plenty of tests verify that, professional tests. You can't wait for a company to be sanctioned even though zero evidence and I mean ZERO evidence to any wrongdoing by Kaspersky has been provided by anyone and you think that's ok? In your eyes it's ok for a company who has spent 2 decades protecting it's users well to be ruined with ZERO evidence of wrongdoing?? You sound like a dictator. I've always got that from your posts though, you don't like to be proved wrong or told what to do. You mentioned Emsisoft, SEPC and Gdata then complain that someone is derailing a thread by mentioning one other product? If you can't see the hypocrisy in that I don't know what to tell you.
I find your sense of superiority extremely rude. Your security standpoint is weak, basically everyone on this forum knows exactly how you secure your network and what you use a black hat would have a field day with you. And I have never in all my day's seen someone so indecisive and pushy as yourself. My home network security makes yours look like something a kindergarten kid put together but I don't go around spouting how my network is setup for obvious reasons.
ForgottenSeer 58943 I'm going to put you on block for multiple reasons, And please, please take my advice and fill the gaps in your knowledge because to be frank you're making the company you work for look like fools.
- Aug 30, 2012
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Guys, just without flames. Some intentions of railing off the thread are pretty much transparent, which is not the case here. We can continue this in a civil manner I think
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