With the introduction of Mac OS X and the rise in popularity of Apple’s portable devices, the Mac is no longer for the nerdy it is now perceived as ‘cool’ – and with this comes a larger user base. I’ve been a Mac user for 15 years and have enjoyed using a computer without the hassle of finding an anti-virus suite, maintaining and keeping my computer clean.īack then, owning a Mac put you in the minority of computers users, especially in the home. Do we need to think about Mac anti-virus? Hopefully, user reviews (like this one) will give them directions how to further develop and improve their product.As Mac popularity grows so does the interest in developing threats for the platform, and while it is far more secure than Windows, it’s not 100% safe. Generally speaking, Sophos did a great job with Sophos Home – it is a step forward in improving security and consolidating all home devices into single Dashboard which gives you the devices security status at a glance. For example, if you want to specify only Facebook to be blocked – this can’t be done at this moment in Sophos Home. The negative side is that you can’t actually specify what exactly to be blocked. You need to pay extra attention to events marked with red color or marked as “threat”. If something goes wrong on some of the devices, you will see a color-coded alert depending on the severity: green = informational, orange = medium severity and red = important events. Sophos Home – Pros and ConsĪnother good thing is that you can initiate “SCAN” action for each device within the Dashboard – if the device is not currently online, the very next time it appears online, a “scan” action will be issued.
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