Why is it free?

Hi CJ

The reason for providing this for free is because we think Macs are beautiful machines and we want to keep them that way.  As Apple market share grows there is a growing concern that the number of malicious attacks against the Mac platform will increase.  Historically, Mac users are less likely to run anti-virus / anti-malware software making Mac users a soft target.  We want to help Mac users increase their security hence offering this software for free.

We know that Mac malware already exisits and these can attack Mac systems to steal data or compromise systems.  As the majority of malware still targets Windows, there is not the same range of high performance consumer anti-virus software available in the market.  Sophos provides high quality protection for businesses, and all business users are also consumers.  Therefore helping them to protect their Macs at home will also help protect their business machines.  We think offering free, industrial-strength protection to consumers will help them be ready for any future mac-specific cyber-attack.

This software is backed by the same high quality threat detection as our business-class software - so will detect, clean-up and quarantine to the same standards, it is not watered it down.  However this is restricted just for home use.

We have not set a time-limit on this software and our intention is to continue providing best protection updates to users on this software version.

Hope you take us up on the offer and install the software on your Mac.

Sunil

Hi CJ

The reason for providing this for free is because we think Macs are beautiful machines and we want to keep them that way.  As Apple market share grows there is a growing concern that the number of malicious attacks against the Mac platform will increase.  Historically, Mac users are less likely to run anti-virus / anti-malware software making Mac users a soft target.  We want to help Mac users increase their security hence offering this software for free.

We know that Mac malware already exisits and these can attack Mac systems to steal data or compromise systems.  As the majority of malware still targets Windows, there is not the same range of high performance consumer anti-virus software available in the market.  Sophos provides high quality protection for businesses, and all business users are also consumers.  Therefore helping them to protect their Macs at home will also help protect their business machines.  We think offering free, industrial-strength protection to consumers will help them be ready for any future mac-specific cyber-attack.

This software is backed by the same high quality threat detection as our business-class software - so will detect, clean-up and quarantine to the same standards, it is not watered it down.  However this is restricted just for home use.

We have not set a time-limit on this software and our intention is to continue providing best protection updates to users on this software version.

Hope you take us up on the offer and install the software on your Mac.

Sunil