Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition 8.0.1C

Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition will keep your Mac safe from viruses, Trojans and worms without getting in your way. High-grade protection without slowing you down.

Best of all, Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition is a free full-featured anti-virus. You get business-grade protection for your Mac backed by our SophosLabs experts - they're on the job every day of the year, 24 hours a day.

Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition runs in the background and scans files for threats whenever your Mac opens them.

Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition comes with an uninstaller in case you want to remove it (we hope that you won’t). Simply run the Remove Sophos application that is in your Applications folder.

Here are some key features of "Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition":

Full protection from viruses, Trojans and worms:
· Stops all threats, even those designed for Windows. Not only is your computer safe, files you send to other computers are safe from threats as well.

Stops all threats, familiar and unfamiliar:
· Our anti-virus technology stops all threats, even if it's something new.

Quarantines and removes the threats it finds:
· You might not want to immediately delete any bad files our scans find. No problem. You have the flexibility to quarantine questionable files and check them again later, or you can have them immediately removed from your computer. The choice is yours.

Business-quality anti-virus, backed by SophosLabs:
· We've put the entire force of our business-strength threat expertise behind Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac. That means you're using the same product that protects organizations like Conair, the Paideia School and Miami Dade Public Schools.

Easy installation and painless maintenance:
· We keep our anti-virus light and easy. Once installed, it'll work quietly in the background, alerting you when it finds something nasty.

It's free:
· 100%, totally, absolutely, completely free.

Requirements:

· 256 MB of memory
· 150 MB of available disk space
· Supports all Apple Mac hardware including iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Scheduled Scans: Now, in addition to On-Access and On-Demand Custom Scans, you can also create Scheduled Scans to run automatically on a pre-defined schedule
Live Protection: Gives you a direct connection to the very latest information we have about new Mac threats. Using our global intelligence network, we can identify new threats quickly and make sure your Mac is protected—immediately. Live Anti-Virus has been available in our Windows products for a while now and I'm really excited that our Mac customers will now be able to benefit. Find out more about what it does by watching this short video:
· Enhanced user-interface: We’ve improved the user-interface and made the product even easier to use