Hi Kevin,
I have been using Sophos Home (free version) for many years without problems.
Some years back, possibly 4 or 5 years ago it warned me a couple of times only
of malwares/virus from P.C. generated emails. Since then it has been doing its
job quietly but no warnings received for some 3
Hi,
anyone had experience with or about Sophos. A relation thinks he will use it.
Regards,
Kevin
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Thank you Shayne,
I am concerned more about that than with viruses on a Mac !
I use Intego X6 Virus Barrier and it has alerted me to phishing attempts on
many occasions,
then blocked them at my request.
On 09/11/2010, at 11:51 AM, S Beach wrote:
Speaking of protecting users.. a very usefull
Me too .. any opinions folks ?
On 08/11/2010, at 3:45 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:
I'm wondering if there are any opinions about the free Sophos anti-virus
software for Macs which is currently on offer? Paul.
http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/free-mac-anti-virus/
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haven't seen any of
this stuff emerge. Installing something like Sophos or any of its cousins now
won't protect us from it when and if it does finally hit. The best virus
software in the world, even on Windows, is ineffective against Zero-Day
exploits, which is what the first true Mac OS X virus
somethings a bit more threatening,
but that hasn't happened yet. This year is the tenth birthday of Mac OS X,
and we still haven't seen any of this stuff emerge. Installing something like
Sophos or any of its cousins now won't protect us from it when and if it does
finally hit. The best virus
Software could protect the iMac but cannot protect people, especially
kids, that is our responsibility.
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Hi Guys
We used to use Nortons until we found out it was causing many problems when
moving files around which all our guys do. So we ran without any anti virus on
our Macs for years until just recently when due corporate policy's we had to
have anti virus! We have now been using sophos
Exactly right Paul !!
On 09/11/2010, at 9:04 AM, Paul K wrote:
Software could protect the iMac but cannot protect people, especially
kids, that is our responsibility.
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Speaking of protecting users.. a very usefull layer of protection, not from
viruses but from phishing and general malware is a service like OpenDNS.com.
This service simply warns you if a link you have clicked on is taking you to
a dodgy site. It does not run on any of your hardware and does not
I'm wondering if there are any opinions about the free Sophos anti-virus
software for Macs which is currently on offer? Paul.
http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/free-mac-anti-virus/
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Request from my wife on behalf of a not-for-profit natural resource
management organisation that has mixed Mac/Windows network 30
machines, OSX 10.4 Windows XP, some Intel Macs running XP.
Could you put a question to WAMUG to see if anyone is using Sophos
virus protection? It works
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