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Sophos Antivirus for Mac

Security — Sophos Antivirus for Mac Home Edition [Mac, Tech]
Securityfreemiumest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 49.9 · 2/4
49.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0).

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 82% of 17 probesavg response 3562 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
sophos.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#731
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Sophos Antivirus for Mac's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Mac Optimizer Proproductivitytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Mareel Gaming VPNsecuritysimilar80%16.00.0→ redirected
TunnelBear for Mac & Windowssecuritysimilar80%49.00.0● live
Stampentertainmenttag-overlap75%46.4+9.6● live
Apiarafinancetag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
StopAd PROsecuritysimilar75%17.40.0→ redirected
Grocery Butlerecommercetag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
Vertical Reader Mode in Vivaldientertainmenttag-overlap75%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:24Z200sophos.com1796alive
2026-08-19 14:19Z200sophos.com2420alive
2026-08-11 00:53Z200sophos.com2064alive
2026-08-08 06:49Z200sophos.com2500alive
2026-08-05 19:06Z200sophos.com2050alive
2026-07-30 18:21Z200sophos.com2572alive
2026-07-23 09:45Z10006timeout
2026-07-18 08:55Z10002timeout
2026-07-11 09:08Z10002timeout
2026-07-04 13:05Z200sophos.com1460alive
2026-06-23 14:13Z200sophos.com1451alive
2026-06-21 17:19Z200sophos.com320alive
2026-06-21 17:18Z200sophos.com1639alive
2026-06-20 05:08Z200sophos.com1583alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Sophos Antivirus for Mac · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/sophos-antivirus-for-mac · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.