
Results on mail header from Sophos is still Clean (Sophos engine version: 9. Unfortunatelly 95 infected mails is drop and stop Eset antivirus. If money wasn't a question (and we confirm our lightweight endpoints could handle it), we'd be on Sophos across the board. We use on linux mailserver two engines Sophos Engine and Eset Engine, first is Sophos and second Eset.
#SOPHOS VS ESET LICENSE#
Management also knows that a one-year ESET license costs us less per endpoint than a three-year Sophos license. Whenever something new in our environment comes along and has a problem, they think it's Sophos, and it has become a time sink.Īt the end of the day I feel better protected with Sophos, and management above me agrees. This game has died down a bit, but I have never had an AV product be this big of a pain as it relates to tweaks on initial configurations. Some other situations have come up where Sophos has caused extreme slowdown, we provide diagnostic information to Sophos support, they find nothing wrong, and we still eventually end up disabling some features after going through that same guess and check process of disabling different aspects of the product. Sophos shows nothing being blocked, we go through a game of guess and check with the policies, and ultimately identify that it was a Sophos configuration that was causing it. Contacting an ESET partner or sales representative ensures each solution is made-to-measure and precisely fits the size, complexity of IT environment and. ESET takes pride in working with customers and partners to find the perfect solution for their security challenges at the right price. Numerous situations have come around where users state "X is no longer working after Sophos was installed". ESET offers are tailored to each customer’s needs. See side-by-side comparisons of product capabilities, customer experience, pros and cons, and reviewer demographics to find the best. Trend Micro has a rating of 4.6 stars with 1237 reviews.

ESET has a rating of 4.6 stars with 802 reviews. We like it, but have found that it doesn't always identify when it is blocking something. Based on verified reviews from real users in the Endpoint Protection Platforms market. I just counted twenty Sophos services running on my desktop. Sophos does a LOT, and is very heavy as a result. I have actually been worried that it wasn't functioning at times, but it picks up malware that I purposely put in front of it.


Product has been stable, with a very small number of false positives as well. We have had no issues that I can ever remember. The feature-set seems lacking compared to Sophos, but we are a few revisions behind and I imagine some of that gap is made up with updating. ESET has been a lightweight and reliable product in an environment where lightweight is a requirement. We're in a position where we have had ESET for a few years at this point for a subset of our devices, but also deployed Sophos to everything that doesn't fall within the subset relatively recently. My response ended up being much more long-winded than intended, but I have experience with both products.
