Sophos home offline installer install#

Once you have installed the program it loads the main interface. The same is true for Email protection which only comes with the Email Scanner module and not Anti-Spam.Įmail Scanner scans file attachments for malicious code but won't keep spam out.

LinkScanner scans Internet links to make sure they don't link to harmful sites. Web protection installs a LinkScanner module only, and not Online Shield which is only included in AVG AnviVirus Pro or Internet Security. You can select a different installation location on the local system, and disable the Web and Email protection components that the program ships with.

Sophos home offline installer install#

Installation of AVG Antivirus Free is straightforward but if you have certain security products installed on your system already, you are asked to remove those first before you can run the installer again to install AVG AntiVirus Free.

The core difference between both products is that Protection Free offers multi-device protection and controls using AVG Zen, an online dashboard.ĪVG appears to be in a transition phase away from AntiVirus Free to Protection Free, as the latter is advertised on AVG's main website while the former is only available through back channels.ĪVG Antivirus Free is provided as a web installer by default, but you can grab offline installers that weight in at around 200 Megabyte as well which don't require an Internet connection during installation. One interesting fact about AVG is that it maintains two free antivirus solutions, namely AVG AntiVirus Free and AVG Protection Free.