That's even worse than Sophos' 88% score in the previous round. In October-December 2020 tests by London-based SE Labs, Sophos fell well behind the pack with an 86% protection score, letting eight out of 100 pieces of malware infect a test machine. Bitdefender, ESET, Kaspersky and Microsoft all got 99.8% or 99.9% detection scores in the enterprise tests. The testing of Intercept X by AV-Comparatives in August through November mirrors these results with an overall 98.3% score. In the same tests, the enterprise software of every other premium antivirus brand we regularly review detected 100% of zero-day malware from July through October.

In AV-TEST's November-December 2020 enterprise round, Sophos finally aced all four tests, the first time it had done so in a year. It detected 100% of the widespread malware in all of AV-TEST's 2020 evaluations from January through October but missed quite a few of the zero-days. Overall, Sophos Intercept X Endpoint was stronger at finding and removing known, widespread malware threats than brand-new 'zero-day' ones. Latest lab-test results as of January 2021 If that's not enough, Sophos offers free stand-alone security tools and utilities (opens in new tab), including the Hitman Pro malware removal applications and two software firewalls. Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux is free and compatible with most major 64-bit Linux distributions, including CentOS, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu, but it isn't integrated into the PC and Mac software. There are Intercept X apps for phones and tablets that require at least Android version 5.0 or iOS version 11. Macs require macOS 10.12 (Sierra) through 10.15 (Catalina), but the latest macOS 11.0.1 (Big Sur) release only protects against malware in the coming months, Sophos will add website blocking to its repertoire.

Sophos Home Premium is based on the company's business-minded Intercept X security software and works with Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) through Windows 10. There's no hardened browser, but Sophos can encrypt keystrokes, stop potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) and block known dangerous websites, and its online account lets you remotely scan your other computers as long as they're online.Ĭlearly, it's for antivirus customers who value price and simplicity over having every last security and privacy feature. Sophos Home Premium uses machine learning to block phishing and ransomware attacks and webcam and microphone snooping.

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