Sophos Home Premium (up to 10 Devices Windows or Mac) 2 Year License $88.20 Normally $126 @ Sophos

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asa79 on 08/01/2019 - 20:37 buy.home.sophos.com (157 clicks)
Last edited 09/01/2019 - 14:50 by 1 other user

Sophos Home has a holiday promo at moment:
- 2 Year License of Sophos Home Premium for $88.20
- 1 year licence of Sophos Home Premium for $49

This gives you protection for up to 10 devices Windows or Mac (Doesn't have to be in same household so you can share the cost with family)

Comparison between Free and Premium versions https://home.sophos.com/en-us/free-anti-virus-windows.aspx

Sophos Home Premium accounts update with AI on or about January 30, 2019

What's coming soon to Sophos Home Premium:
- Artificial Intelligence (Windows)
Evaluates files before they even run and stops brand new, never-before-seen, "zero-day" attacks in milliseconds.
- Enhanced Real-Time Protection (Windows)
Prevents cybercriminals from using un-patched vulnerabilities in your OS or apps as wide-open doors into your PC
- Scheduled Scans (Windows) (Apple)
- Malware Quarantine (Windows) (Apple)
- New, Improved User Interface (Windows) (Apple)

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  Clear on 08/01/2019 - 20:43

  I love Sophos. I use their Enterprise grade products and they're flawless with seriously good ransomware detection. The Home stuff is also very good at stopping threats from my tests and in my opinion far better than the resource heavy alternatives offered by Bitdefender, AVG etc.

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    asa79 on 08/01/2019 - 20:44

    Sophos Home Premium accounts update with AI on or about January 30, 2019

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      Clear on 08/01/2019 - 20:46

      I haven't heard about that. Hopefully it's similar to the deep learning capabilities in Intercept X?

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        asa79 on 08/01/2019 - 20:49

        Sounds similar only for Windows tho
        Artificial Intelligence - Evaluates files before they even run and stops brand new, never-before-seen, "zero-day" attacks in milliseconds.

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          Clear on 08/01/2019 - 20:51

          @asa79: Yep that's what Intercept X is using and it's just another name for behaviour based detection that everyone should have.

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    MasterScythe on 09/01/2019 - 02:27

    Wow ive had the exact oposite experience.

    Im an admin for a company using the enterprise version also.

    InterceptX is…. Good… but the extra cost doesnt equate to the features; good network tools from cisco/meraki already offer similar logging at a lower level, and the rest of the behavior based stuff is 'common' in all of the av offerings imo.

    When browsers start swapping to hdd, we get endless "ROP prevented" false positives.

    Their purchase of hitmanpro has lead to 10's of false positives on XLS documents that are pre office 2003 created, as cryptolockers (whyyyy!?)

    Having no way to clean up threats from within SophosCentral is a bloody joke.

    And we went over 16 months of the app reporting updates happening, until i looked at the database file manually, and noticed it hadnt the whole time!

    On the plus side, detection rates are A+++, but to achieve this, the number of false positives are frustrating.

    But different strokes, different folks.

    Im glad someone is having a good time with it.

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      Clear on 09/01/2019 - 08:56

      I generally have Intercept X running with their hardware solutions like the UTMs and everything seems to integrate better. The false positives are probably the worst problem I'm having with the product. Though my issues are more to do with video streaming, e.g. Foxtel being blocked. I've yet to roll it out to clients who do have pre Office 2003 documents so I'll be curious to see how that goes.

      In terms of detection it's definitely a winner. Throwing ransomware against it compared to Bitdefender, Windows Defender and all those other yucky AVs people like to use it comes on top everytime.

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        MasterScythe on 09/01/2019 - 19:33

        How do you deal with detections efficiently?

        As an example;

        We get an email alert that a detection happened.

        We get alerted it cant be cleaned.

        Since sophos central doesnt seem to have any actions once a 'clean' fails….

        We log into the machine via VNC or RDP depending if its in use.

        The antivirus has 'locked' the file, so you cant delete it without disabling real time protection.

        You go into sophos central again and disable tamper protection.

        You want ANOTHER 10 minutes for the client to notice this change.

        You disable the AV, delete the file, and re enable the av again.

        Detection rates are tops, false positives are many, but they've generally put ZERO effort into how to deal with a detected threat!

        Advice at all?

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      asa79 on 09/01/2019 - 09:47

      Alot of products have false positives until you tune it to suit. Example at home I have to exclude calibre

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        MasterScythe on 09/01/2019 - 19:34

        Yeah, executables make sense.
        But macro-less doecuments, do not.

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  timetoquit on 08/01/2019 - 22:01

  +2

  Been using MacBook for over 10 years now and never ran any sort of Malware, Antivirus, Ransomware programs however due to the nature of technology and reliance on the web these days I've come to the conclusion I should protect my data.

  I've been having some issues with my email lately sending out spam, a couple attempts at changing my IG accounts, even Microsoft account, have since changed most things to 2FA, and Internode have since made me change my password on two occasions. Often receiving mailer daemon spam, although I've since signed up to Bitdefender, Malwarebytes and Avast it appears to be 'under control' - I'm considering getting Sophos before the other licenses run out, would this be sufficient for both my MacBook and Windows laptop (SB2) on it's own?

  Thanks for any advice/ suggestions.

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    asa79 on 08/01/2019 - 22:13

    The free version covers 3 machines and basic functions, so that might be worth testing the waters before purchasing a full licence

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  Borg on 08/01/2019 - 23:42

  +1

  Main issue I see with Sophos is its uninstaller. It happily installs many many services and registry entries however if one tries to remove, it's far from fun. It's like the developers didn't include a proper uninstaller that will remove things. So much is left behind……not good Sophos. Fine for those that are happy with product as no uninstall required.

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    asa79 on 08/01/2019 - 23:45

    Given that similar issue with most applications

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      Borg on 09/01/2019 - 00:02

      Nothing came close to the shocking uinstallers of Sophos. As noted, not an issue for those that plan on sticking to Sophos.

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        asa79 on 09/01/2019 - 00:16

        That's true once on need need to change

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        Clear on 09/01/2019 - 00:39

        In my experience disabling tamper protection properly makes the uninstallation process much smoother.

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  Sergeant Salami on 09/01/2019 - 08:45

  For anyone who used the beta they are offering a 30% discount. Check your emails.

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    glenn955 on 09/01/2019 - 09:07

    This does calculate as 30% off.

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    asa79 on 09/01/2019 - 09:45

    Same price for both

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      Sergeant Salami on 09/01/2019 - 10:06

      Just got to work and checked. The 30% discount is the same price as the OP.

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        asa79 on 09/01/2019 - 10:11

        I had same email and then noticed that they offering for everyone. Don't feel so special any more