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Why is it free?

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Obvious question.. but what are your reasons for offering this product for free?

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    pixturesk wrote:

    In reply to busterb. I have been using the Sophos for Mac Free Edition for a week, working flawlessly.

    Wonderful! I am happy your experience has not been as troublesome as others. Even so, I musk ask if you tried the manual scanning option. 

    pixturesk wrote:

     Until Sophos, the only free Mac AV was ClamXav which has no on-access scanning as far as I know. 

    Yes, it does. It's called ClamXav Sentry.

    And ClamXav is what I am using right now to scan external drives since Sophos won't work for me, and I have now tried it on multiple Macs. There simply has to be something wrong with Sophos for Mac when it doesn't work on a brand-new install of OS X on a just-formatted drive with no third-party software installed, especially in light of it not being a universal problem. If Apple were behind it, one would think more would be reporting problems. Instead, like you, some are getting on in a smashing fashion. 

    As someone with nearly 30 year experience fixing computers, and two decades in IT, also being an ACTC and ACSP, I simply cannot understand how the Enterprise version worked so well, while the free version doesn't. In the Enterprise I was a part of we had the Mac clients updating directly from Sophos, so a local server is not something one can point to as a difference to explain the problems. 

    Bluntly put, my experience has been the 'free' version is buggy while the Enterprise version I worked with was a flawless dream. I just do not see how this could possibly be essentially the same program. Never - not even once - out of roughly 1,000 computers did we ever experience a lock-up caused by Sophos. And this experience runs the better part of a decade, mind you. As I stated once before, if Sophos the paid version had acted like the free version is now, we would have ripped it out of every computer and never used it again. 

    And I do not make an idle boast when I say a $99 price tag on the Enterprise-for-Home version of this software would be a steal. Seriously. I can't relate how easy my job was administering Sophos for Mac. It truly was a dream. If they could put that into a $99 copy of Sophos for the home user, by all rights it should come with a conviction and criminal record for theft. 

    But the software Sophos for Mac that is 'free' I classify as the most expensive software in the world. 

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    pixturesk wrote:

    In reply to busterb. I have been using the Sophos for Mac Free Edition for a week, working flawlessly.

    Wonderful! I am happy your experience has not been as troublesome as others. Even so, I musk ask if you tried the manual scanning option. 

    pixturesk wrote:

     Until Sophos, the only free Mac AV was ClamXav which has no on-access scanning as far as I know. 

    Yes, it does. It's called ClamXav Sentry.

    And ClamXav is what I am using right now to scan external drives since Sophos won't work for me, and I have now tried it on multiple Macs. There simply has to be something wrong with Sophos for Mac when it doesn't work on a brand-new install of OS X on a just-formatted drive with no third-party software installed, especially in light of it not being a universal problem. If Apple were behind it, one would think more would be reporting problems. Instead, like you, some are getting on in a smashing fashion. 

    As someone with nearly 30 year experience fixing computers, and two decades in IT, also being an ACTC and ACSP, I simply cannot understand how the Enterprise version worked so well, while the free version doesn't. In the Enterprise I was a part of we had the Mac clients updating directly from Sophos, so a local server is not something one can point to as a difference to explain the problems. 

    Bluntly put, my experience has been the 'free' version is buggy while the Enterprise version I worked with was a flawless dream. I just do not see how this could possibly be essentially the same program. Never - not even once - out of roughly 1,000 computers did we ever experience a lock-up caused by Sophos. And this experience runs the better part of a decade, mind you. As I stated once before, if Sophos the paid version had acted like the free version is now, we would have ripped it out of every computer and never used it again. 

    And I do not make an idle boast when I say a $99 price tag on the Enterprise-for-Home version of this software would be a steal. Seriously. I can't relate how easy my job was administering Sophos for Mac. It truly was a dream. If they could put that into a $99 copy of Sophos for the home user, by all rights it should come with a conviction and criminal record for theft. 

    But the software Sophos for Mac that is 'free' I classify as the most expensive software in the world. 

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