I installed Sophos Home on my Mac 30 days ago with the usual 30 day free premium trial etc which has now ended. I can't find any way to scan or manage my computer either on the app or online now the trial has ended. It's obviously pushing me to pay for premium.

My colleague however installed in exactly the same way about a year ago and his installation has reverted back to a non-premium version that is functionally perfect for what I need.

Is this no longer available or it is just being hidden to try to get me to buy the full version?

Hi all, a quick question. My university offers Sophos home premium for free. I usually don't do lots of risky stuff. Is it worth it to set it up? Does it have any side effects on my computer like slowing it down?

Thanks.

I heard that accounts that were modified to be sophos home free before the "change" would still be able to use sophos free but newer accounts wont be able to. Also, what led to this sudden unusual decision by sophos?

So it appears that the non-premium version of Sophos Home has been silently moved from "Free Edition" to "Free Trial". The dashboard is no longer functional and after updating the software it appears essentially bricked with nothing but an ad for premium.

Feels like the beginning of the end for Sophos. I understand sometimes a company will discontinue a product, but to pull the rug out from under me is unhelpful to say the least, especially on a security focused product.

I am very disappointed. I had previously considered upgrading to premium, but I do not consider Sophos an option anymore. I do not feel comfortable trusting my security to a company who will brick my AV with no advance warning.

No blog post or announcement in sight - in fact most of the website still says "Free" but the landing pages have been changed to "Free Trial".

Wondering if others are running into the same issues. Discussion is welcome.

Edit: Thanks u/zw9491! Looks like it has been officially mentioned in at least one location so at least we don't have to speculate.

It also confirms

No, your computer is not protected after the license expires. None of the Sophos Home settings/protections will work until the license is renewed.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition.aspx

Anyone using it? Good? Bad? Downsides?

Hello. I am interested in Sophos for home use and I have some questions.

1. Can the home edition use more than 2 network interfaces?

2. Is the home edition limited in what network inteface chips/cards it can use?

3. Is there a way around the 4 core & 6 gig limitation as I would like to use a more robust system?

4. What anti-virus engine does it use?

5. Can one buy a used Sophos appliance and install the Firewall Home edition onto it?

6. Is the home edition a full blown software solution that would be as powerful as if one were to purchase an appliance that came with the software for business?

Anything else you can tell me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hello, I would like to install the free version of the Sophos Home Firewall in proxmox in my Homelab. I have watched a tutorial and unfortunately I am already stuck at the simplest step, the registration.

First of all, I created a MySophos account on the download page for the firewall version. I have also received the email with the license key for the firewall. Now I have to create a Sophos Central account / or link the mysophos account and start the trial. If I want to create the Sophos central account or start the trial, I have to enter my name and email again. But also a company name etc. But since I want to use this for private use and only at home, this option confuses me a bit and I don't know what to enter there.

Thank you very much for your help!

Have been using Sophos Home since it was launched as a Beta and have subscribed to the Premium since it became chargeable - It expired this week (just found out after launching Sophos to see when the defs were from). I didn't get a reminder like usual but anyway, before I hit renew I am wondering if there are better alternatives out there now? I protect 8 Windows devices, a few being family, so want to make sure it's worth switching before telling them to install / have to do an install for them.

I don't do anything fancy with it, so have all features enabled as per the recommended settings.

Hi. Happy New Year to all, I wish you all the best. We have a recreation center (in a remote area) that only works for a couple of months in the summer.

Basically, about 100-140 customers + about 40 more are employees, cameras, sockets and various small things. Until now, there was TP-Link Omada equipment, a gateway switch and 5 access points.

Not to say that it worked poorly, but something is missing there. I'm just interested in seeing other options. Now I have bought several ruckus R710 R720 points and a ZD1200 controller (not new on Ebay) I also bought a Topton N305 + 32GB DDR5 mini PC.

Now I'm looking for a software-based DHCP server with monitoring, QOS, filtering, and client authorization capabilities (we used vouchers built into Omada)

The main question about the home version that I am interested in is

What is the difference in the home versions of Sophos? Restrictions on the number of IP addresses? Processor and memory limitations? What other differences are there? I'm asking because there is no trial version, just registration and that's it. Paid with a discount of about $ 50, free without time limit. Perhaps there are fundamental differences? Or vice versa, in any of the home versions (paid and free), no more than 100 IP addresses are sewn.

For example, I will install a virtual version of Sophos on Proxmox. I'll set everything up, and in the summer, when I need to work at the base, Sophos will tell me at the peak of the arrival of clients...sorry, I won't work, you have a lot of clients, you have a lot of sessions, I won't do QOS here, etc

As such, no filtering is required. People come for a couple of days. Youtube, TikTok, messengers... Stable traffic shaping is needed (input channel 60-100mbps) Yes, authorization (I think this will allow the Ruckus controller to do this, so it is possible that client authorization will be removed from the gateway)

I am considering getting Sophos Home antivirus, but I'm really not a fan of "everything about you and your software is stored in the Cloud^TM" paradigm that every company and their mother is trying to push.

Is Sophos Home a "good" AV, and is it safe (in the sense that it doesn't sell/steal your data)?

Hi all, I was wondering if sophos is a good AV in 2022, I remember it was pretty good in 2020 and they've also moved to cloud so there should be minimal impact to pc resources.

I might be infected i try to find help in techsupport and people say anti viruses / anti malware 100% dosent detect all type of malware they say to reinstall windows any help if this is true and is sophos home good? Aswell kaspersky virus removal tool?

For those of you using this product do you use Malwarebytes in conjunction or do you feel Sophos alone is enough?

My subscription renews in about 30 days and I am wondering it sophos home premium is still worth the $40 a year or if I should just drop it. Since I installed untangle as my router at home I have not had a single hit on my sophos AVs but again layers are always better. Thoughts?

Hey guys!

Did a test on Sophos Home with 15 recent malicious scripts consisting of .bat, .js and .vbs files. The samples were collected from https://app.any.run by using the filter type scripts and malicious verdicts. All samples are very recent, almost all of them were uploaded today. Some of the samples there are AsyncRAT, AutoIt infostealer, RAT abusing NetSupport's legitimate remote control software, droppers, downloaders and fileless loader for XWorm.

Malicious scripts were saved in a folder and Sophos Home was then installed. The settings were all kept enabled and it was checked to see if all the protections were enabled. The folder was then scanned, and the remaining samples were ran by double clicking.

Test was done on a Windows 10 Hyper-V machine with fully disabled Windows Defender and internet connection. Software such as Process Monitor, Process Explorer, Autoruns, TCPView were installed to monitor malware behavior and determine the detection, persistency or malicious activity.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCeP9GEhJY

Samples: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/472c9765f8cdd92a36e0301c2ad2d38f775002dc49db1ea439a6cb86c285d7d6/relations (if anyone retrieves the archive, the password is infected)

• Static detection (detection when scanning the folder containing all malware): 1/15 (6,6%)

• Remediated samples after running (samples that were terminated and their malicious activity did not pursue) 10/14 (71%)

• Samples, that were able to set a persistency (run after restarting): 4/14 (28%)

• Samples, that were terminated after triggering persistency when restarting (by behavioral engine): 2/4 (50%)

• Samples, that were able to run after triggering persistency, however did not show direct malicious behavior: 1/4 (25%)

• Samples, that were able to run and showed direct malicious behavior, such as connecting to C2, downloading more malware: 1/4 (25%)

• Malware that was able to get away with malicious activity: 1/15 (6,6%)

Final verdict: This test once again proved that the most important part of anti-malware software is the behavioral detection. Second opinion scanners can not do what Sophos did here today. The ability to remediate malware detected by behavioral detection is very good here, but can definitely be improved. Sophos is a great anti-virus software,

Improvements: Finding the actual culprit triggering the detections is my only idea here if we don't consider the poor static detection, since the samples were new. It is not comfortable restarting into 5 popups about blocking PowerShell that blocks my whole screen. I would also love the ability to close all the notifications at once in the tray.

Sophos is definitely on the right track to become a top product. Considering these samples are very new and are not statically detected yet, the fact behavioral detection was able to handle this well is impressive.

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Please, use a real antivirus software. Do not rely on VirusTotal analysis and then using second opinion scanners time to time. You need a behavioral detection nowadays. Script malware is everywhere and statically detecting it is just not as effective as flagging it's malicious behavior. If you look at the static detections from VirusTotal, the chances your antivirus would detect are low, as most popular engines struggle with flagging it. Making a statically undetected script is not as hard as it may look.

I have asked this question before and It was replied to with "no you don't need a subscription to have MDR-threat feed and X-ops threat feed working"

My trial just expired and now I get this banner saying "This feature requires a subscription. It can be configured but cannot be enforced without a valid Xstream Protection Bundle."

what have I done wrong since I need a valid subscription?

if you could help me figure this out I would be much obliged.

I'm currently using pfSense, but I'm not fully convinced by it. I'm looking for something a bit more advanced, like a next-generation firewall (NGFW).
I'm considering trying out Sophos XG Home, but I'm not very familiar with Sophos. I've used Fortigate and Check Point at work, but since they don't offer free versions, I'm open to other options.
What would you recommend?

Hello, i work with sophos devices at job alot so i setup my home fw on proxmox with the sophos vm. But now i wonder if is possible to install the home version of sophos software on older Xg Firewall or even on something like RED 20w so i get also wifi from it. With proxmox i must use external ap what makes the setup too bulky for me.

EDIT: Does anyone know if Sophos RED 20 HW specifications? What is RAM and Disk? Is it possible to upgrade it for more if it is not enough to run Sophos Software?

UPDATE: I got Sophos XG 135w I have just fine installed the Sophos XG 19.5.3 HW and Software version, is just needed to use DD mode on rufus to burn iso on the USB.

Now I just want to try to make the built in wifi work, I think I saw somewhere workarround for Home license, but cannot find it again. Otherwise I will use PFsense there