If you're still unsure, there's a free trial available. Looks like good value to us: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus costs $80 to cover 10 devices for a year, and Kaspersky Antivirus' charges $130. One year's coverage costs $60, rising to $100 for two years, or $140 for the full three years. There's one plan which covers up to 10 Windows or Mac systems. Which makes your choice even easier: it's Home Premium or nothing at all.)

(There was once a Sophos Home Free version, too, but unfortunately, it's now been dropped. Sophos Home for Macs for $45 per year (opens in new tab).Sophos Home for Macs subscription options: You can sign up for Sophos Antivirus solutions here (opens in new tab).Sophos Home doesn't have a mobile app, but users can protect their devices with free Android and iOS versions of Sophos' Intercept X app, instead. Sophos Home Premium (opens in new tab) is an unusual Windows and Mac antivirus which focuses on simplicity, yet still manages a decent feature list: real-time and on-demand virus protection, anti-ransomware, anti-phishing, parental control-type content filtering, keylogger protection and more. There are no jargon-packed comparison tables, no pricing schemes so complicated you need Excel to figure them out: the company has one product, one plan, and that's it.

If you've ever wished shopping for antivirus (opens in new tab) could be simpler, Sophos just might appeal.

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