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    sophos antivirus or avg?

    I currently run avg free as my antivirus. As work uses sophos av, it also means I can use this at home if I want to. I know sophos is normally for business but wondered if that would mean it would be etter at stopping/detecting/getting rid of viruses.

    question is, is sophos better than avg or not?
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    They are both good applications - make sure the version of sophos you run can update from the web - they used to be a little bit slow with their updates.
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    I use both (on different PC's), I also get a copy of Sophos for use at home from my Dad's company.

    I'd go for Sophos, it uses hardly any system resources, and automatically updates every hour.

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    Sophos would be better.
    AVAST is a better free AV than AVG tbh.

    Kaspersky is the best though (with NOD32 a close second)

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    i'm a hudge fan of sophos (nearly ended up working for them too!).
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    Personally i'd go for anything over Sophos Anti-Anti-Virus
    Its easy to use in an enterprise - just not that good at actually detecting viruses
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    Sophos is much better than AVG. Support for the product is absolutly ACE.

    I use it at work and at home with no problems at all.

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    Sophos is good in an enterprise environment, but for the average home user its overkill. I would also say that the version I used (just over a year ago) was not as easy to use as AVG or NOD32.

    I'd simply go for NOD32 or stick with what you've got.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    Sophos is good in an enterprise environment, but for the average home user its overkill. I would also say that the version I used (just over a year ago) was not as easy to use as AVG or NOD32.

    I'd simply go for NOD32 or stick with what you've got.
    This is bang on, Sophos is good its not the best but its reasonable. Going to all the trouble of mucking around with it isnt worth it.

    AVG Free is more than capable.
    If you have some Cash and want good protection then you cant beat NOD32.

    Ive used Sophos, AVG (Pro and Free) and NOD32 aswell as many others and i wouldnt consider not having NOD32 on any system i use.
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    if they've properly configured sophos then you will have no settings to make/do. It will be easy.

    However, this might not be what you want.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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