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Even this is a little underpowered, though, as the program doesnt support simultaneous scans.

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On this page, after our brief intro, youll find (a) a full evaluation of Sophos Home Premium, along with our review of the free offering (b) Sophos Home Free You can jump to the reviews of those individual products by clicking on the links in the bar at the top of this page, but bear in mind that this article is really designed to be read all the way through, as when we evaluate the free offering, we refer back to features and capabilities discussed in the Home Premium review.

Theres no densely packed comparison table stuffed with technical features, no pricing scheme so complex you need a copy of Excel to figure it out: there are just two straightforward products.

Sophos Home Free covers the security basics, with antivirus and malicious URL blocking.

But there are also unusual extras, including content filtering for parents (block adult sites, violent content and more), and the ability to remotely view and manage the status of up to three other devices running the package.

Sophos Home Premium extends this with anti-phishing, advanced real-time threat prevention, an extra anti-ransomware layer, privacy tools (including webcam protection), and what the company calls advanced malware scan and clean.

Theres also live chat and email support, although its for limited hours only: 8am to 8pm EST, Monday to Friday.

However, note that Sophos does offer very capable Android protection with its Intercept X range, but Sophos Home is just for desktop PCs.

You can sign up for Sophos Antivirus solutions here Premiums feature descriptions are a little vague, and its not always easy to understand what youre getting.

The website explains that it stops apps from covertly sharing your personal information, for instance, and prevents malware from stealing usernames and passwords, but how Its not clear, and that makes it difficult to compare the product with others.

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The equivalent Bitdefender Antivirus Plus license costs 80, and even a single device license is 40.

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Sophos Home Premium (Image credit: Sophos) Download the Sophos Home Premium trial, hand over your email address and within a couple of minutes itll be installed and running an initial system scan.

This wasnt amazingly fast for us, but it didnt spend hours crawling over every file and folder, either: we only had to wait around 20 minutes before the app gave us a clean bill of health.

We were surprised to find Sophos Home had added around 1.4GB of files to our system, especially as its so short on features (weve seen far more capable products use less than half that).

Sophos Home also required 17 background processes and a handful of drivers running in the background, more than we see with most suites.

These didnt seem to add much of load to our system, though, and beyond slightly longer boot times, we didnt see any major performance impact.

Theres another potential downside in having so many active processes, in that this could give malware more opportunity to attack and perhaps disable your protection.

We test this in several ways by trying to kill or stop processes, delete key files, pause or remove services, unload filter drivers and more but Sophos tamper protection did its job, blocking everything we attempted.

Image credit: Sophos) Interface Double-click the Sophos Home system tray icon and the programs very simple interface appears.

Theres some status information (last update, last scan time), a Scan Computer button, and a handful of other buttons for lesser functions (management, settings and a few other bits and pieces more on those later).

Tap the Scan button and Sophos Home runs a full system scan on your PC.

Theres no upfront way to customize the scan, and no quick scan, or removable device scan, or indeed any other scan type.

Once youve launched a scan, you cant switch to any other part of the app until its finished or cancelled.

Thats a potential hassle, especially as a full system scan could easily take an hour or more, which is why most antivirus apps allow you to leave a scan running but also use other areas of the package as usual.

Image credit: Sophos) Sophos adds a right-click option to Explorer, which is useful as a way to scan a particular file, folder or drive.

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