The Sophos Home online account includes parental website filters. Chief among them is remote management from the Sophos Home web page, so you can check on your machine - and up to nine other Macs or PCs linked to your account - from the field.
The two other antivirus brands whose Mac programs we recently reviewed, Malwarebytes and McAfee, have not had their Mac-malware detection abilities recently evaluated by either independent lab. (All those companies also make some of the best Android antivirus apps.) Avast, Bitdefender and Kaspersky got 100% in AV-Comparatives' June 2019 Mac tests, in which Norton was not tested. Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Norton's Mac malware engines each got perfect 100% detection rates in both those rounds.Īll three of those rival brands, plus Avast, also got 100% scores in both AV-Test's April-May 2019 Mac evaluations. In the October-November round from that year, Sophos stopped 100% of Mac malware in the April-May tests, it stopped 98.4%. However, AV-Test did test Sophos twice in 2017. Neither of the independent antivirus testing labs whose results we normally rely on, AV-Test (in Germany) and AV-Comparatives (in Austria), had tested Sophos' Mac malware detection in their most recent surveys of Mac antivirus software at the time of this review.