Security & Antivirus Guard

Sophos Limited

About this app

This app is an add-on to Sophos Intercept X for Mobile and to Sophos Mobile Control, to ensure that these apps run at all times. It checks the running processes on your device and restarts the monitored apps if they are terminated.

Note: Sophos Security & Antivirus Guard works only in combination with Sophos Intercept X for Mobile or Sophos Mobile Control. You can install these apps from Google Play Store.

Notes on required permissions
• Device & app history, retrieve running apps: This permission is required to determine if Sophos Intercept X for Mobile and Sophos Mobile Control are still running.

Ratings and reviews

You guys are on point with security. If I had any suggestions, it would be to include better, more detailed instructions when it comes to turning things on/off or allowing certain permissions, like accessibility- for people who aren't as familiar with how a smart phone works. I had to help my father install this and turn everything on for his phone. Other than that, excellent app. Thanks Sophos!

*For those who don't know, this app is NOT the antivirus/antimalware app. This app is meant to SUPPLEMENT the Sophos antivirus app to ensure malware can't disable your AV or uninstall it.* This "watchdog" app hasn't been updated since 2020. Do we still need to install this on our devices in 2024? I'm sincerely asking.

I stumbled across this two/three years ago and have run it on all my smartphones ever since. Very simple to use runs quietly in the background. only popping up for issues.

What's new

Protects the Sophos Mobile Control client 9.6
Protects Sophos Intercept X for Mobile 9.6