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Sophos was gearing up for a private life – then someone remembered the bike scheme

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Have you seen it recently? We use their Endpoint Protection software here on our Windows machines. It is already mind-bogglingly bloated. 20 or so components running at all times, usually eating 500-700 Megs of memory, sometimes more (and that was after I tweaked policies to turn some stuff off). The only positive thing about it is that they manage to waste that much memory without actually bogging the machine down to where it's unusable. It's merely unbearable.

The only Sophos product I ever cared much for was the Astaro firewall that they bought 8-10 years ago. They didn't force them into the borg - last I checked in 2017 or so, it was still mostly the old Astaro Linux team that was selling and supporting the UTM product.

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