Home version for Mac sending out data?

This was on Sophos Home on a Mac running 10.9. The Activity Monitor tool has been improved in 10.9 to allow more information about energy and network usage. At a glance in the Network tab, you can see sent and received bytes summed up per program (you were only able to see "sent and received messages" previously, which didn't mean much to most people). Everything had been scanned at that point, and I had rebooted in the last few days before seeing this. I was actually just playing around with what new information you could see in Activity Monitor and wouldn't have noticed this amount of data going out otherwise, so no impact, just unexpected behavior. I had probably imported photos to Aperture from three different sources in the couple days while this amount of data was being sent and done some normal heavy web surfing.

I can understand having an option like this, and since I have and move around tons of files and photos and am a fairly heavy web user, 150MB is probably not too big of a deal. It would be great if something about this could be mentioned in the section of the preferences about this, or at least in some info file or help menu in the program. Additionally, at the same time, I noticed 8 or so separate Sophos processes running. It would be great to have some reference for what all those processes are doing. I really like knowing at least generally what the programs I install are doing on my machines.

This was on Sophos Home on a Mac running 10.9. The Activity Monitor tool has been improved in 10.9 to allow more information about energy and network usage. At a glance in the Network tab, you can see sent and received bytes summed up per program (you were only able to see "sent and received messages" previously, which didn't mean much to most people). Everything had been scanned at that point, and I had rebooted in the last few days before seeing this. I was actually just playing around with what new information you could see in Activity Monitor and wouldn't have noticed this amount of data going out otherwise, so no impact, just unexpected behavior. I had probably imported photos to Aperture from three different sources in the couple days while this amount of data was being sent and done some normal heavy web surfing.

I can understand having an option like this, and since I have and move around tons of files and photos and am a fairly heavy web user, 150MB is probably not too big of a deal. It would be great if something about this could be mentioned in the section of the preferences about this, or at least in some info file or help menu in the program. Additionally, at the same time, I noticed 8 or so separate Sophos processes running. It would be great to have some reference for what all those processes are doing. I really like knowing at least generally what the programs I install are doing on my machines.