We’re about to purchase a MacBook Pro. We’ve never owned a Mac. How would we go about installing the Sophos?
Have you owned your MacBookPro for very long? Do you like? Love it? Andy Pros/Cons/suggestion?
There’s a very good reason mac users are passionate about the platform.
Every PC is an electronic roulette wheel. You never know when it is going to crap out on you, nor how long it is going to take to get it back up and running.
Macs don’t work that way. They just work.
Don’t listen to any jackass that tries to tell you we gladly pay three times what they’ll pay for a laptop because it’s a status symbol. We gladly pay three times what they’ll pay, because time is money and we can confidently sit down to do an hours work an hour before the deadline...e v e r y t i m e.
While you CAN install Sophos' AV on your Mac, I don't recommend it. They are not too far above the scare ware level themselves in their advertising of their product. To even have their AV find any OSX malware at all, Sophos had to disable Apple's own built-in anti-Trojan protections so that their software could successfully intercept some downloaded Mac OSX Trojans. Then Sophos released a hyped announcement that Macs using their AV software had intercepted thousands of viruses, spyware, and other malware in just three weeks of being used . . . but did not bother to inform anyone that 98.8% of that intercepted malware was WINDOWS ONLY malware, or that the 1.2% that was truly OSX malware would never have gotten through the OSX built-in protection were it not for Sophos turning it off!
First, I don’t have a Mac Book (laptop). I have an iMac (desktop). I’ve owned it for years and I love it. I’ve had PCs previously and we have many PCs and PC based laptops in our home. I will never go back to a PC. My husband and son enjoy the challenge of figuring out what’s gone wrong with their PCs. I’m not a computer geek. I just want a machine I can use and can depend on.
I don’t remember what steps I used to install Sophos, but I can guarantee it must have been easy. How can I say that? I installed it myself without any help from anyone else. As I have already mentioned. I am not a geek.
I’ve had my iMac for some time and it has shown no sign of slowing down or becoming obsolete. Both my husband and son have gone through multiple computers in the time I have had this one. It seems PCs become obsolete once you take them out the box.
But as for Sophos, I installed it because even though I doubt a virus can infect a Mac without user error (you have to give permission to install anything), the malware threat is growing and the number of people with ingenious attempts to get through the defenses is growing as well. I’d much rather be safe than sorry, so I decided to protect myself before I needed the help.