Anti-Virus

As part of the National Grid for Learning (NGfL) our school utilises anti-virus software provided by Sophos. At home we recommend downloading Sophos Home to protect your devices. This uses the same scanning techniques but also has some great benefits. You can use it on up to 3 devices and it provides some parental controls as well. The best Part? Its Free. It will sign you up for a 30 day trial of its premium features but as long as you keep to 3 devices it will revert back to its free offering. Please note that if you have another anti-virus software on your PC or Mac (Norton, McAfee, Malwarebytes Anti-Virus, Kaspersky for example) you will need to remove that software before installing Sophos Home.

If you would like to sign up to Sophos Home then please click the image below. If you do not have Anti-Virus we strongly recommend you install software to help protect your PC or Mac against Viruses and some attacks. Unfortunately we cannot give advice on other Anti-Virus software and there are many companies out there to choose from if you wish to install something different

Sophos Home

If you click to download and install the software it will protect one computer but through this you can sign up and add up to 3 devices and choose the level of protection for the devices.

Once you have signed in you will see an icon for your device. If you click on this you will see this page. By Clicking on Web Filtering you can see and adjust settings for the device. You can choose different settings for each of the devices you choose to protect. We think this is a very useful and easy to use feature to help filter out inappropriate content.