I cant see what dis app is scaning in scan section while it does virus scan. On the whole nice app as compared to other apps features all are vry good i recommend dis app to all bcoj i hav almost used all the AV's but never get satisfied with any one. But dis app satisfies me. Plse just take care of scan section atleast we should b aware of what it is scanning and if possible add time also not possible addition of time atleast percentage of apps scaned.

It would better if this can be integrated with a start-up manager & a robust firewall. Hope in the next version it will be done. Otherwise great product. But, still can't call it a security suite. App protector crashes time to time.That needs special care from devs. Anyways I will keep using it as long as it will keep me safe.

Sophos knows what they are doing with security. However, this app throws way too many "low reputation app" alerts, with very little information about what is wrong with the (often high-profile) apps in question. Are they false positives or genuine issues? No way to know, so more of an annoyance than a feature.

Yesterday, I wrote a glowing report about this app. But now I am forced to reconsider. I am running Sophos on a Galaxy Tab S2 with Android 7.0. My Tab has never flagged up an app for consuming too much battery - until now. Sophos is consuming 1% per hour, which is an order of magnitude greater than anything else on my device. And I have deselected scheduled scans. Reluctantly will need to uninstall.

Genuinely free without ads or pay upgrades. Flagged most of the things I would expect without too many false positives. Didn't flag unknown source installed apps as such which I would have liked. Also would prefer it as pure AV without extra functions. But overall recommend.

The only remaining free AV application on Android that makes any sense. An obvious replacement for MalwareBytes now that they have sold their souls and betrayed their user base. In fact, Sophia is much better than MalwareBytes ever was on Android. Wish I'd found that out sooner!

All in all this is a nice app that is easy on my phone's resources and battery. The fact it's free with no ads is fantastic!! The only three small issues I have are: 1) I wish during a scan it would show what was being scanned and a percentage complete, 2) I honestly can't see a way short of a force stop to interrupt a scan and 3) the notification icon a download has been scanned worked at first every time and now it's intermittent. With that being said it's still one of the nicest security apps I have ever used and I go all the way back to the cupcake version of Android.

Great Security App This is a great app (if I could do 3.5 stars I would), I love the features but there are two downfalls that are pushing me back to Lookout as my security solution. First, there is no web interface, you have to text. I don't have a texting plan, just google voice so that isn't an option. Second, lookout has a fantastic "lock screen camera" feature that takes a photo and emails it to you if your password is entered incorrectly three times. While some of the advanced features that are free with Sophos are paid on Lookout, on the whole Lookout is the winner for interface and a few features I find useful.

I have app protection with finger print enabled and every time I have to authenticate in a protected app, that app closes after authentication and opens again (or doesn't open at all). Very annoying. And when I get WhatsApp messages when doing some other stuff in my phone I instantly get prompted with the authentication popup for WhatsApp, even if I didn't want to open it. That's much more annoying. Please fix this!

1) It would be better if the scanner shows what it is currently scanning and of course the percentage of scan. 2) As it is suggested in the setting of the app under "Monitor SD Card" the app scans all new files on all storage devices. But when you download or move a file to your device you don't see any report on "Log" section of the app for that. 3) It doesn't always show scan notification when the "Scan notification" box is checked in setting. 4) After the latest update and in "statistics" section, it seems that "No scans..." and "No full service scans..." warnings are always there no matter how many times the app has run any kind of scans. 5) Reply to sophos reply: what you've written is just an explanation about what the app is supposed to do, which l knew it before; But what I'd said was that the app is not doing what it's supposed to do; for example when you install 5 apps it just shows notification for 2 or 3 apps. Or while the app has run a full system scan and many other scans for newly installed apps in the last week, the "No scans..." and "No full device scans..." warnings in "statistics" section are still there. 6) About "Scan notifications": I've waited for hours and days but nothing happened. It still doesn't show notification for all scans. And I've tried this on three different devices.

"Low reputation apps" has *way* too many false positives. It would be much more usable to push a normal notification instead of a blocking pop-up. Otherwise probably 4.5 to 5 stars.

Ad-free antivirus that promises and delivers. Most of the features that are paid for on other antivirus come free with this antivirus: 1. Web filtering 2. Unlimited app protection 3. Password management system 4. Spam protection This is great and satisfying, however, as other users have noted; system scanning doesn't give details of progress or items being scanned which for most users may be disturbing. I haven't noticed issues with my battery or RAM since installing this app, so I think it passes on both grounds I noticed that web filtering fails in incognito mode both on chrome and stock android browser (ASUS ZenFone 2). I am not sure if this is intended or it's a glitch, the desktop doesn't have this issue. Also it will be nice if the mobile device can be connected to the centralised web management available to desktop users. Overall, I will highly recommend this app for most users.

Please add the option to have an icon in the notification bar, to show that Sophos is active. Thanks! *Update: The App Protection was already on, and still is. Currently there is no icon in the notification bar.? Possible bug? **Update 2: Yes I have the guard app installed. I have used other security products and those have had the active icon in the notification bar. This for me is convenient to have because it lets me know if the security app is functioning properly or if there's issue or if a crash has taken place. I have found another issue. I tested by trying to install some apps from the Google Play Store, and only about half of them had a pop-up notification from Sophos that they were scanned. I hope you take this in the spirit it is intended. I consider this just my efforts to help you improve your products. Thanks for all your replies.😊***Update 3: My phone started running warmer/hotter, with this security app. I wanted this app to work well, alas I had to switch to a another security product. 😥

Accessibility service keeps turning off. It then appears the whole AV software stops working until you enable it again. It doesn't scan any app updates while this feature is disabled. It is getting very annoying having to re-enable this feature all the time. This problem appears to be mentioned in quite a few forums but no permanent fix appears to be available. I've used other brands of AV software on my phone before and none of them have had this issue. Seems to be unique to Sophos only. Please fix or suggest a permanent fix to this issue and I'll be happy to update my review to reflect this.

sophos is one of the very best along with ahn lab, cm, 360, du antivirus, whie armor ***missing options why not have a pop up after incoming calls to block calls, or hide videos and pictures and a pattern applock

Low reputation apps check too harsh, also it is unclear, when those apps are allowed, are their communication completely unmonitored or are they only sllowed to run (being only low apps and not malicious ones). Scan progress is missing and detailed summary.

Thee best AV in the playstore with extremely reputable devs and a spam FREE app that Boldly goes where all others only dare go AT GREAT COST !! Sophos, The delightful people's heroes of the internet with a mission to stand in the way of all android malware outlaws and baddies to fight the good fight for all who would join the Sophos movement ! :)) Highly Recommended for all who seek a top class, spam free, 100% FREE Security app ! Much gratitude to the homelands of Oxfordshire UK from the Colonies Down Under ! Happy Tuesday Devs ! :)

I love it on my phone and on my tablet!!! Mainly because it stops all unwanted annoying phone calls!!!

Well,there is no perfect antivirus on Android,but this I would say is the best among all in my opinion.Another thing I would say is that you guys should add "Antivirus" in your name because majority of people search by using the word antivirus including me.It was not in the list when I searched antivirus but I am glad I found it.Keep up the good work! That's all I can say.

I LOVE THIS APP WORKS GREAT BUT SEEMS TO BE EATING BATTERY ? ANY IDEAS ? Update i see im not only one with this issue .1.36 in a hour both phones a s6 edge and a s7 edge ..uninstalled till fixed

Best Antivirus app. No Ads. Only Security. Blocks malicious websites like a pro. SMS filtering option is required.

Unable to grant permissions for app to run or install properly due to screen overlay issue. Attempts to overcome screen overlay failed and hence had to uninstall app

Works well without annoying ads but the web protection feature keeps turning itself off so I doubt it's protecting the way it should.

Update 18/08/2017: "Monitor Storage" is working base on the file you tell me to download. Also when I install an app, Sophos Anti-Virus scanned. Yes I'm using Lineage OS with extracted firmware from MIUI. I tested your app with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, Samsung J7 and Google Pixel with my own AOSP, and then I found that I have similar issues, however this devices were able to finish a scanning (apparently). Same issues like always showing "Last Scan: less than one hour ago". So based on my experience with this other devices I'm going to upgrade the score of this review. Also the fact that app can detect malware and virus from files and web helps a lot, because many other "Antivirus apps" only work as an anti-malware scanner and don't have "Monitor Storage". Update 12/08/2017: My device has a normal amount of installed apps, I use this smartphone for daily basis. 46 apps installed in this device (including system apps like camera and file explorer). All of the apps are installed from play store and it's not rooted. I tried to scan the device again a few days later without a SD card, because I have TWRP backups of this phone and it's a huge amount of data (8 GB). Again the scanning never ends. I never receive a not notification about scanning status. I let this app installed a few days and the app always has this message ""Last Scan: less than one hour ago". I have no idea if scans are finishing or not, if I check the statistics shows that no scans have been run since I installed the app. It's pretty weird, other Anti-Virus apps work well (Norton, Bitdefender, Kasperky, Avast...). I like Sophos so I'm going to give it another try in the future. Original Review: I use Sophos on my Linux computer and I was expecting to have the same good experience, however Sophos for Android is not working in my device (Android 7.1.2), the app doesn't complete a single scan (I let the app scanning for hours and it never ends, just says "Last Scan: less than one hour ago", however if you check stadistics shows that no scans have been run since I installed the app. I was thinking about switching from Norton, maybe next time Sophos! As a cybersecurity researcher I cant use or recommend this app as I do with Sophos for Linux. Note: This is the third time that I install Sophos Anti-virus (In different time periods) and this is a long term issue. The app has many good in-build features like: Web filtering, Password Manager, Loss & Theft ,Spam protection, Privicy Advisor and more, but the principal funtion of the app is not working at all!

Is this a malicious app to hide a secrete code to sent out message without our knowledge?? I have been charged for many messages costing our huge cost for my careless to grant this app to locate my phone when it is low batterry to the defined number. Really dangerous to write this function in loss and theft. My money has been spent out with angry that I should not allow this app in the phone to grant its permission indeed. I am really shock Me. Oh my god!! When my phone is low battery, you should track our location and report on email not on defined phone number. Who installs this app must skip low baterry locate function!!

For the most part I like it. Lot of different aspects to it other than simple malware scanning/protection.

Web Filtering not supported on Andoid 6. Is this permanent? Now fixed. Does exactly what it's meant to do. Perfect.

Sophos makes a really great Antivirus, and the fact that it's free *and* not ad-encumbered is just amazing. I'd love to donate a bit to help support them.

Enough with the low reputation apps! If I followed these recommendations my phone would have nothing running on it. How do you decide what is low reputation?

Works well and isn't aggressive in how it runs. Easy to install and use and automatically scans apps as you install them. Have not had any issues after using for almost a year

Doesn't use much battery and seems to work well.

Web filter detects malicious code in compromised websites which is impressive for a mobile antivirus. Like it. Serves my purpose. Thanks.

It is running super slow and isn't checking anything

Dang, I really had detailed review abt Trojan lurking in Activities>Devices>. had: ANDROID DEVICE (SAMSUNG) cc:b1:1a:fb:31:82 AV told me to put the string (?) IP address (?) In browser. Sent me to your site. Y'all ID'd as a Trojan\Mal\Spy ware But... I couldn't. Retrieve removal tool So, here I am

Its an awesome great for security

Web filter doesn't work

Free, no ads, many options and a whole-device scan which does its job. Excellent 10/10.

Runs very well on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Well done with the latest update !

It doesn't open Whenever I want to open it, it requires accessibility permission every time but doesn't open

Uninstalled it. Overall good, better than other antivirus apps. Needs a couple of improvements. Take care.