School supplies Sophos, is it decent?

My college is going to supply Sophos antivirus for free this fall, and I currently have Kaspersky. Is Sophos decent? It would be nice to have a legitimate copy that I can actually update, so I would rather use Sophos, but I don't know if it will give as much protection as Kaspersky. Which one would you use?

 

An un-updated AV is worse than a weak AV. Running your computer under the assumption that the heuristic algoritms and an old definition are good enough is just asking for trouble. Also, I don't think advocating running a cracked AV will happen around here.

I wouldn't go with Sophos at all. Sophos is worse than a number of free AVs, including MSE.

 

my hospital has used sophos for over 15 years and they only ever had one attack and that affected almost the entire world from gouvernment,the pentagon and nasa.
as far as i know the buisiness version is very good which is what your school will supply.

nbr is not the best place to discuss cracked versions so if i were you i would edit that out of your post.

 

It is forbidden to discuss pirating software and the OPs post has been edited

 

i know,and thats why i said to edit his post.

 

Sophos is enterprise class antivirus. Yes, it is that good.

 

Sophos enterprise class is different than the consumer-grade. OP didn't indicate that, and I've seen schools roll out both endpoint and consumer software for students - either way, it's usually not the latest version. Sophos' latest endpoint offering is supposed to beat mcafee norton and checkpoint, so if it is Sophos endpoint 9.*, go for it.

 

So the school doesn't use the one for small business or something? I don't see much different between consumer version and enterprise version beside central management point. I don't think the school would use consumer product on the network, and it is logical for them to give the same version to student too. I don't see how the school would buy two diffeent versions. I speak from network engineer/system admin stand point.