Review: Sophos antivirus for Mac

– November 7, 2010Posted in: Apple, Apple news!, Geekerie, Hacking, Mac, Reviews, Science, Technology

I’ll come right out and say it. Sophos antivirus for Mac truly sucks. As Mac users know Macs are normally incredibly fast. They also do an amazing job at task management. For example; Firefox uses about 5-10% of your CPU at any given time, more CPU usage than that can really slow down your computer. Guess how much Sophos antivirus uses… 30% when its running in the background (by the way, I know I answered my own question). If you run the scan…
That’s what happens. It stops. I don’t know how much CPU it uses when it is running because my computer stopped when I ran it.

My advice to Sophos is to get their act together and do some testing before they release a big product like this. Words alone do not describe the horridness of this product. It has to be the worst commercial software on the planet.

What do you think? Tell us in the comments below.

Tags: advice, antivirus mac, commercial software, cpu usage, firefox, guess, job, mac users, sophos antivirus, task management

About Elijah Rotholtz

mapin
Hmm i just installed it and it seems fine. When sitting in background, the activity monitor shows it is using 0% of CPU and 4 threads. Can’t get much smaller footprint than that. When I tell it to scan local drives, it’s CPU usage jumps to 4.6% and 12 threads. I suggest you re-review, seems like your system is messed up.

http://gizmoray.com Elijah Rotholtz
That’s strange. Thanks for the suggestion. The app did crash my computer, and it was taking up 100% of my CPU. I’ll give it one more try.
http://gizmoray.com Elijah Rotholtz
I re-installed the app. The CPU usage spiked at 100% and 25 threads when I was running the app. It appears the update that Sophos provided did improve the background process usage. That spiked at 4% and 15 threads. You need to look at all of the processes with the name Sophos, not just the one.
Thanks for you input!
-GizmoRay

http://sharon4776@gmail.com snap
Don’t get Sophos. The free trial for the anti-virus has encrypted my hard drive, and the password Sophos provided does not work. My lovely MAC now consists of a gray screen with a Sophos login space and that’s all! There is not even data that is retreivable on my hard drive. Everything is lost and my hard drive has to be replaced. I’m kind of wishing I’d stuck with the nice little virus I’d gotten as opposed to this computer hard drive eating monster!

http://gizmoray.com Elijah Rotholtz
I know right! I truly despise Sophos… I’m glad someone has had issues as well!

Rick
I worked fine for a few weeks….no problems, didn’t know it was there. Then, one day I turned on the computer and Sophos starting running something in the background. Hours went by and it was still running, causing my computer to be totally unresponsive. I tried to cancel the action and force-quit the app, but each time I tried, I got an error saying that Sophos cancelled the force quit. Finally, I performed an uninstall. Sophos is off my computer; however, it’s still totally unresponsive.

Anonymous
That’s bizarre. I would recommend a complete reinstallation of Windows. However, if you don’t have the reinstall disk, I would recommend waiting to see when Windows 8 comes out, as it was announced this afternoon.
If you need any help with the reinstall, let me know. I’d be glad to help!
Good luck!
–
GizmoRay
Anonymous
Whoops… Sorry. I just noticed I said Windows 8. What meant to say, was Mac OS Lion. Way too many OS’s being released. The same applies though. Let me know if you need any help.

Cassporilla
I installed Sophos and a few days later I had a problem with being on the internet and opening Itunes, Pages, and Numbers at the same time. I’m still trying to repair this! I have to turn Airport off to be able to open any of those programs! Otherwise, my Mac is great. Is there anyone else with this same problem and any solution to this? Thank you!
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