Home version for Mac sending out data?

Question

I caught Sophos Mac Home having sent out 150MB of data. Is this program intended to send out any type of information? If so, what is being sent out? I've removed the software for now. :1014057

Aditya Patel · Answer

Hi Mark , 
 The SophosWebIntelligence (SWI) is acting as a proxy for all your request so the data sent and received to the SWI will be counted as well. The diagnostics will also count internal communication between applications. 
 
 e.g. 
 Website 1 
 say the website is 600KB , the browser would send say 10kb data for the request this request is gone through the SWI and goes to the web server. The data received is 600KB by your PC will be processed through SWI i.e Received DATA is 600KB and forwarded to your browser which is sent from SWI which is SENT data i.e. 600KB . So SWI sent and receive will almost be the same as the browser communication. 
 Your actual internet usage would still remain 600KB not 1200KB.