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Sophos Antivirus Home Edition Full Client Before

With Sophos Home, you can secure 10 MAC Windows home computers per account.

The installation is super easy and the visibility from the cloud console makes the product extremely powerful.

Lets take a look at Sophos Home Edition Installation and Configuration.

The account is free and signup involves the usual confirm your email address process.

After signing up and confirming your email address, you can then add computers and gain access to the Dashboard.

You dont have to sneakernet an install around to various computers although you could do that.

As you can see below, there is a machine with a Potentially Unwanted App or PUA that was found.

Sophos Antivirus Home Edition Full Client Before

It is a hefty 225 MB or so and you have to download the full client before you can kick off the installer.

I wont bore anyone with all the screenshots from the installer as it is pretty straightforward as you would expect.

Note as it mentions below, you need an active Internet connection to complete the install.

You are then taken to a screen where you can initiate a scan or configure options.

As you can see, you can turn on and off options for malware, PUA, and web filter.

Also, below is what options are turned on by default including Web filter preferences.

The categories section of the web filter is easily flagged over to Warn or Block particular categories.

After signing up and confirming an email address, you are ready to start protecting your devices.

With the cloud connection, you have access to your installation software as well as current scan statistics anywhere you have an Internet connection As shown in our post, Sophos Home Edition Installation and Configuration is a snap and definitely worthy of taking a look at if you have 10 devices or less, either Windows or Mac you want to protect.

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