Unfortunately, Sophos Home isn’t a frequent guest among major independent testing labs. Once you reach the web interface, you’ll find that this kind of management system has its positive sides - if there are multiple devices using this antivirus, you’ll be able to monitor and control all of them from one place. Deeper settings and security options can be accessed via a web interface only, which might cause some inconvenience. On the bright side, this means beginners won’t have any problems using it. Users will also notice that the app interface itself is rather rudimentary and limited. A welcome feature is a program adding the right-click scanning option to Explorer, which allows you to scan specific files, folders, or drives. When you start the scan, there’s no way you can do anything else in the app unless you cancel it or wait for the scan to end (and this can take over an hour). In other words, you can’t directly configure the scan, there’s no quick scan option, or any other scan type, for that matter.
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The Scan options are surprisingly limited, with the full system scan as the only option. Moreover, it will add a whopping 17 background processes and a few drivers, although this doesn’t hinder the device’s performance drastically (other than taking a bit longer to boot the system).
Installing it will encumber your system with around 1.4GB of files, which is a bit unusual, considering this platform isn’t exactly abundant with extra features and all the complex options are accessible via the web interface.
Upon running the first time, Home Premium will conduct an initial system scan which can take around 20 minutes.
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