Sophos is an antivirus company based in the United States and England and has been around since the 1980s. The antivirus software is frequently used in business and educational environments. Therefore, Sophos is often available as a free antivirus by the institution (the way I was originally able to test the antivirus). The software is fairly basic in that it only provides virus protection. However, Sophos does an excellent job at mitigating virus and malicious software threats. The software also has excellent memory and CPU resource management capabilities.
Installation:
The download file was 66 megabytes in size, which is on the smaller side for standard antivirus. The installation had a fair amount of menus and options to configure. A user will also need to enter in the provided username and password to download updates. The installer also needs to first extract files to a location however, this type of installer is usually indicative of a more manual experience. Interestingly, the installation process hasn’t changed for probably about 5 years. The whole installation process took about 5 minutes.
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