Sophos Intercept X for Mobile
4.2star
45.4K reviews
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About this app
Sophos Intercept X for Mobile delivers industry leading protection against malware and other mobile threats. The app has consistently achieved a 100% protection score in AV-TEST’s comparison of the top Android security and antivirus apps.
Full features, no advertising, all free
Sophos is an IT security leader for companies and governments worldwide. This app comprehensively protects your Android device and your privacy without impacting performance or battery life.
Malware protection
• Scan apps and storage media for malicious or inappropriate content.
Web Filtering
• Block web pages with malicious, undesirable or illegal content.
Link Checker
• Check links you tap in non-browser apps for malicious or inappropriate content.
App Protection
• Protect apps with a password.
Wi-Fi Security
• Check your connection for man-in-the-middle attacks.
Privacy Advisor
• List apps that access your personal data or that could create costs.
Security Advisor
• Get advice on how to improve device security.
Secure QR Code Scanner
• Perform security checks when scanning QR codes that include URLs, contacts, or Wi-Fi connection data.
Password Safe
• Store all your account data in a KeePass-compatible password database.
Authenticator
• Generate time-based (TOTP, RFC 6238) and counter-based (HOTP, RFC 4226) one-time passwords for multi-factor authentication.
Managed mode
• Connect the app to Sophos Mobile to enable your organization to manage your device.
Intune Mobile Threat Defense (MTD)
• Connect the app to your organization’s Microsoft Intune account to restrict access to corporate data based on the device’s compliance status. This requires Sophos Central.
Permissions
• Permissions are required to monitor incoming data, and to detect and stop threats. More info: https://sophos.com/kb/117499
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission when you turn on the App Protection feature.
• This app uses Accessibility services.
• The Wi-Fi Security feature of Sophos Intercept X for Mobile needs the location permission to get the name of the Wi-Fi network you’re connected to, even when the app is running in the background. The app doesn’t actually access or track your location.
Battery and data usage
• Malware definitions update once a day to keep you protected. This uses a small amount of data.
• The initial full scan of every installed app causes a one-time increase in battery usage.
Support information
• Knowledge base: https://community.sophos.com/kb?TopicId=1294
• Support forum: https://community.sophos.com/products/mobile-device-protection/f/18
• Use our SDK for premium antivirus in your app: https://www.sophos.com/AndroidSDK
Full features, no advertising, all free
Sophos is an IT security leader for companies and governments worldwide. This app comprehensively protects your Android device and your privacy without impacting performance or battery life.
Malware protection
• Scan apps and storage media for malicious or inappropriate content.
Web Filtering
• Block web pages with malicious, undesirable or illegal content.
Link Checker
• Check links you tap in non-browser apps for malicious or inappropriate content.
App Protection
• Protect apps with a password.
Wi-Fi Security
• Check your connection for man-in-the-middle attacks.
Privacy Advisor
• List apps that access your personal data or that could create costs.
Security Advisor
• Get advice on how to improve device security.
Secure QR Code Scanner
• Perform security checks when scanning QR codes that include URLs, contacts, or Wi-Fi connection data.
Password Safe
• Store all your account data in a KeePass-compatible password database.
Authenticator
• Generate time-based (TOTP, RFC 6238) and counter-based (HOTP, RFC 4226) one-time passwords for multi-factor authentication.
Managed mode
• Connect the app to Sophos Mobile to enable your organization to manage your device.
Intune Mobile Threat Defense (MTD)
• Connect the app to your organization’s Microsoft Intune account to restrict access to corporate data based on the device’s compliance status. This requires Sophos Central.
Permissions
• Permissions are required to monitor incoming data, and to detect and stop threats. More info: https://sophos.com/kb/117499
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission when you turn on the App Protection feature.
• This app uses Accessibility services.
• The Wi-Fi Security feature of Sophos Intercept X for Mobile needs the location permission to get the name of the Wi-Fi network you’re connected to, even when the app is running in the background. The app doesn’t actually access or track your location.
Battery and data usage
• Malware definitions update once a day to keep you protected. This uses a small amount of data.
• The initial full scan of every installed app causes a one-time increase in battery usage.
Support information
• Knowledge base: https://community.sophos.com/kb?TopicId=1294
• Support forum: https://community.sophos.com/products/mobile-device-protection/f/18
• Use our SDK for premium antivirus in your app: https://www.sophos.com/AndroidSDK
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4.2
45.4K reviews
David Bruington
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February 11, 2019
I loved this app, it was especially useful for blocking unwanted calls, and the locate and recovery features added some nice peace of mind. unfortunately Google has forced them to reduce the app to little more than a well built antivirus. It's a great security app, it does its job quietly and efficiently. Providing a release with all the previous features outside of the play store would be awesome, but it doesn't seem likely.
26 people found this review helpful
Sophos Limited
February 12, 2019
Thank you for your rating and understanding. We are also very sorry that we were forced to remove those features. Thank you also for your proposal to provide an app variant with Loss&Theft and Call Blocking outside of the play store, which we will discuss.
Your Sophos Mobile Team
Luca Kukuk
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October 28, 2018
It is really good, very smart concept, effective and easy to use. Loaded with features and ad-free! I have a few suggestions though. These are quality of life suggestions, so this is still a 5-star app. First, the app locking has a smart concept but isn't compatible with some apps. For example, apps that have a loading screen then pop up the actual app the app locker will prompt you at the loading screen, but then refresh when the app loads and prompt you twice and it looks sloppy. Second, have low-reputation apps scanning as a separate service to the scanner. That way adding the exceptions for using the low reputation apps (because they are apps I know and trust) doesn't leave any vulnerabilities on my device. Just my thoughts, keep up the good work! Oh, and the help page has no spaces between words, but it works lol
10 people found this review helpful
A Google user
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March 14, 2019
Always on the job. But is not intrusive and does not have a noticeable impact on my tablets performance. It does find threats, some I threw at it just to check. It updates without me even noticing and the configuration submenus are well organized and easy to use. Each choice is explained in easy to understand language. There could be a better one out there but it will be hard to beat this one. Try it!
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What's new
Bug fixes
With this update, the app might prompt you to grant the "All files access" permission. This is due to a change in Android security policies. To stay protected, please grant this permission, which is required to detect malicious content on external storage.
With this update, the app might prompt you to grant the "All files access" permission. This is due to a change in Android security policies. To stay protected, please grant this permission, which is required to detect malicious content on external storage.
