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Goodbye Sophos - hello Avast.

I've finally uninstalled Sophos and won't be using it again. I'm grateful that the developers make it a free app but it's caused me too many hassles recently with the constant updating that never stops, on access scan constantly being greying out and trying to do a full system scan takes hours and hours just to calculate the files to scan before it scans anything, and always the suggested solution is either to reboot or remove and reinstall. That's not how an app should be, free or not! So I've switched over to Avast which is working perfectly at the moment (of course only time will tell if it stays like that).

Thanks again for the work Sophos does to make this free but much more needs to be done before I'd consider switching back to it, unless someone convinces me otherwise!!

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  • Sophos is definitely causing some slow downs on our Mac. However, when I tested Avast I had major problems with Kernel Panics. I had a panic while installing, one while updating and one while attempting to uninstall it! I also didn't like the way Avast proxies all web and email traffic. So, while Sophos is rather cumbersome, I found Avast to be even worse for us. Just my experiences - yours may vary...

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  • Sophos is definitely causing some slow downs on our Mac. However, when I tested Avast I had major problems with Kernel Panics. I had a panic while installing, one while updating and one while attempting to uninstall it! I also didn't like the way Avast proxies all web and email traffic. So, while Sophos is rather cumbersome, I found Avast to be even worse for us. Just my experiences - yours may vary...

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