New in this edition is a mobile management app that gives you full control via your iOS or Android device.Īs with the free product, the user interface is vanishingly small. Now you can remotely take care of security problems without ever leaving your desk. If you find yourself handling security for your whole extended family, this can be a blessing. From the dashboard, you can see all your protected devices (up to 10) and easily extend protection to a new Mac or PC. Even so, it offers decent protection at a very reasonable price.Īs with the free edition, you manage configuration settings and view activity logs in an online dashboard. Sorry, Mac users, most of those high-end features don't carry over to the macOS edition.
Upgrading to the Premium edition, reviewed here, gets you a wealth of advanced security components on Windows. You can get basic protection on both platforms for free. Sophos Home Premium, available for macOS and Windows, brings that same business-grade antivirus technology within reach of ordinary consumers. In the consumer marketplace, Sophos isn't the best-known name, but CISOs and other business-level security experts know it well.
