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Firefox and Sophos

Doug1

Firstly,thanks for the Sophos Anti-Virus.

My query is this:Is there any need to have Sophos Web Protection switched on whilst using Firefox? I ask because when this preference is switched on,Firefox loads pages noticeably slower than when Web Protection is switched off. I believe Firefox has a built-in checker for malware and phishing. Is this,what Firefox

offers,not sufficeient protection? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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    With 5 months having gone by, Sophos V9 having reached 9.0.7, and V8 soon to be retired, it seems a good time to raise this question again.

    Having stuck with V8, I figured it was time to switch to V9, and I've been noticing quite a variation in webpage loading time with Web Protection on. On the major news websites (e.g., NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times), web pages sometimes load nearly as quickly as when Web Protection (both kinds) is off, and at other times, one page can take nearly half a minute. :smileysurprised: Since a quick check with Web Protection off on that page or similar pages is very fast, it doesn't seem to be the website's server which is being heavily used; the same is true if I start with Web Protection off.

    I wonder if there are times when the Sophos server that SophosWebIntelligenceD contacts is being kept busy enough to introduce some latency, and other times when things are slow at SophosWebIntelligenceD so the server can respond quickly?

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    With 5 months having gone by, Sophos V9 having reached 9.0.7, and V8 soon to be retired, it seems a good time to raise this question again.

    Having stuck with V8, I figured it was time to switch to V9, and I've been noticing quite a variation in webpage loading time with Web Protection on. On the major news websites (e.g., NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times), web pages sometimes load nearly as quickly as when Web Protection (both kinds) is off, and at other times, one page can take nearly half a minute. :smileysurprised: Since a quick check with Web Protection off on that page or similar pages is very fast, it doesn't seem to be the website's server which is being heavily used; the same is true if I start with Web Protection off.

    I wonder if there are times when the Sophos server that SophosWebIntelligenceD contacts is being kept busy enough to introduce some latency, and other times when things are slow at SophosWebIntelligenceD so the server can respond quickly?

    :1015861
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