Sophos Home: Totally free antivirus for home

[bayasdev]

is forticlient really that bad i had it installed and it felt really light and did not notice it it always updated every hour but then i heard has no zero day
protection

Forticlient is an @oldschool signature only AV

 

[Aggravatorx]

oh thank you for that geminis3 thought maybe cloud also do not think that is enough then

 

[bayasdev]

oh thank you for that geminis3 thought maybe cloud also do not think that is enough then

Cloud AVs requires a first victim to get infected before blocking a sample with signatures, if you like Forticlient you can keep using it, since their web protection is very good in companion to common sense you wouldn't get infected that easy, unless you like to run unknown executables on a daily basis.

Every AV is good if you have a responsible user behind the screen.

 

[Moonhorse]

Sophos home premium FREE is average, their signatures are decent enough , web protection ; phishing filter sucks thought, you get access to their dashboard and can block certain categories completely , it does some caching and gets faster, you can also install it to family members computer and run scans on those computers throught dashboard

Its perfect software to pair with pretty much anything

I would use it for family filtering only + local av and then pair it something like comodo firewall + trafficligh/ netcraft

Their mobile antivirus is completely free and offers alot of protection modules, wich is suberb in my opinion

 

[Aggravatorx]

Cloud AVs requires a first victim to get infected before blocking a sample with signatures, if you like Forticlient you can keep using it, since their web protection is very good in companion to common sense you wouldn't get infected that easy, unless you like to run unknown executables on a daily basis.

Every AV is good if you have a responsible user behind the screen.

i figured it is better then webroot

Thank you all for responding it really does help learning from all of you

 

[paulderdash]

Their mobile antivirus is completely free and offers alot of protection modules, wich is suberb in my opinion

Yes excellent, I like and use it too.

 

[simmerskool]

Sophos Home is totally, 100% free antivirus for home being offered by Sophos. And no, there are no pesky ads asking you to upgrade. And no, this isn't just a trial period. It's free AV for your home forever*.

Protect up to 10 devices for both Macs and PCs.
You can get it here Free Antivirus for up to 10 Mac and Windows Users | Sophos Home

Does Apple recommend Sophos Home for your macOS device?

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Update for Sophos home 3.1.2

 

[FireHammer]

Nice to see good free AV solutions, but I will stick with Bitdefender until there is no more sand in Sahara.
It just gets along with the Notebook I have now, and YES it has already saved my b.. several times.
But it is very good with free antivirus, it is forcing the paid software to do better, so it benefits all.
And welcome to this outstanding Forum @Kim at Sophos.

 

[davisd]

And welcome to this outstanding Forum @Kim at Sophos

Last seen more than 3 years ago. But yes, I was also following quite closely Sophos Home development and even provided them details how to improve their product, none of my suggestions were listened at nor features in Premium improved, so I have completely lost dedication to help them. I strongly advice nobody to use Sophos Home free or Premium at this time, it's development is simply too slow, it's not better than Windows Defender.