Sophos Anti-Virus For Mac

Having a reliable security solution running on your Mac is extremely important if you want to protect yourself against various types of online or network threats. Sophos Anti-Virus is an unobtrusive antivirus solution that can scan your Mac to detect malicious code, but can also identify and block online threats.

The Sophos Anti-Virus software package comes with an installer, which means that the deployment process is reduced to following the on screen solutions. Note that to completely and correctly remove Sophos Anti-Virus from your system, you must use the uninstaller contained in the Sophos Anti-Virus directory that will be created in the system’s Library folder.

For your convenience, Sophos Anti-Virus places a small menu in your status bar that offers you the possibility to trigger a complete computer scan, or to access the scan window. The latter allows you to create and schedule custom scans.

Sophos Anti-Virus integrates a Live Protection service designed to communicate with the Sophos online lookup service: when enabled, your software will download the most recent virus definitions without requiring your attention.

Moreover, the Web Protection features will block both websites and downloads from URLs that have a bad reputations. To bypass these limitations, you can create your own list of allowed websites.

The Sophos Anti-Virus app also includes a Quarantine Manager that offers you the possibility to clean any of the detected threats. The antivirus logs your activity and you have the option to visualize the log contents in the Console app.

Sophos Anti-Virus integrates seamlessly within your operating system and enables you to periodically scan your hard drive in order to identify possible threats. To automate the process you have the possibility to schedule scans. Sophos Anti-Virus also protects you while browsing online by blocking URLs that have a bad reputation.