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Home version for Mac sending out data?

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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. 

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    If I understand it right, with WebIntelligence running (i.e. if we want any web protection at all), if I receive any data from the internet it first has to be uploaded to the Sophos servers for checking (including therefore sensitive data by the way) before I can access this data on my computer (be it videos/ photos/ files/ web pages/ anything).

    Now, even assuming this is being done cleverly and this upload is (almost) simultaneous to the download (rather than being uploaded after it has first all downloaded) it means, if I use Sophos, my internet connection speed is effectively reduced to the upload speed of my broadband (which is very much slower than the download speed for most people).

    Can't we have an option that checks things locally on our machines? We're uploading to the internet as much as we're downloading (I've checked) and our broadband speed is crippled!

    Please respond to these concerns.

    Thanks.

    :1016937
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    If I understand it right, with WebIntelligence running (i.e. if we want any web protection at all), if I receive any data from the internet it first has to be uploaded to the Sophos servers for checking (including therefore sensitive data by the way) before I can access this data on my computer (be it videos/ photos/ files/ web pages/ anything).

    Now, even assuming this is being done cleverly and this upload is (almost) simultaneous to the download (rather than being uploaded after it has first all downloaded) it means, if I use Sophos, my internet connection speed is effectively reduced to the upload speed of my broadband (which is very much slower than the download speed for most people).

    Can't we have an option that checks things locally on our machines? We're uploading to the internet as much as we're downloading (I've checked) and our broadband speed is crippled!

    Please respond to these concerns.

    Thanks.

    :1016937
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