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Every anti virus is the same. I mean on the security as everyone copies from the other so you will be protected by all known viruses by all providers. I have used kasperky in years 2006-2010 abd was killing my pc so am not using it anymore. For now am using only malwarebytes and in my opinion no anti virus needed as the hackers are always one step forward as anti viruses. Just dont download things such nulled templates or things from unknown websites.
While you're right for the most part, end users can indeed configure Sophos... at least on Linux (using 'savconfig'). Usually just to set exclusions where it makes sense (eg: database datadirs) as 'on-access' scanning really means 'on write', which has performance penalties unacceptable for some workloads. The changes aren't permanent, though - the next time the service is restarted it'll pull the policy again. So while it's not greatly customizable, it is possible in theory.
Also, I just found out Sophos Home is a thing, and it's free! https://home.sophos.com/ I'm not sure how good it is, but hey, it's there and worth a try considering who it is IMO.
Edit: Personally, I don't usually bother running AV all the time. Gets in my way too much for me... but I'm also the type that'll write a driver or kernel module for fun. Software like this is immediately suspect of things like that. I have other protection measures in place (eg: disabling JS, DNS-based hostname blocks, good browsing habits, etc), so I don't worry too much. I'll do periodic scans (from within the installation and outside to ensure no 'rooting' happened) but they always come back clean.
This isn't the smartest thing I've read today. But you're right, don't download cracked software and porn and you'll be ok.
Why are not same then? You think the one have more protection then the other?
Really, really good, actually. The poster you quoted was pretty off base about it.
Yeah they are good at detecting malware and pups but their https scanning slowed my 500 down connection to about 200 down so I switched to another av even though you can disable it