User manual

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July 2013 www.av-comparatives.org
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SophosAnti‐VirusforMacHomeEdition
Introduction
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition is a
straightforward antivirus program.
Nature and size of the installer: 78MB full
installer
Installation
The downloaded package includes not only
the installer, but also an .html document
entitled “Before You Install”. This provides
links to the Sophos forum and Facebook page,
along with a warning that Sophos does not
provide telephone or email support.
The installer also includes a “read me” page
with more information about the program
(e.g. help and deinstallation), plus a licence
agreement to accept, and the option to
change the installation location. There is a
further information page at the end of the
installer:
We found the installation process very
straightforward, and consider the information
pages at the beginning and end to be helpful.
There is an uninstaller provided (Sophos
Remove, in the Applications folder) which can
be used to easily remove the program.
Program interface
The program interface of Sophos Anti-Virus for
Mac could fairly be described as “minimalist”;
it appears to be more like a dialog box than a
window: