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Also called sophos home premium, sophos antivirus home

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The home SKU of Sophos. Intercept X and Sophos Central are the work products. The window is Sophos UI.exe.

What you need to know

Sophos Home is the household SKU. Central is the work product.

Sophos Home installs from home.sophos.com. Intercept X and Sophos Central are enterprise. Sophos UI.exe is the home window. Home plus live Defender is the two-engine fight. HitmanPro is a separate Sophos scanner.

What is it?: Household Sophos, not Central
Same as Intercept X?: No. That is the work product
Plus Defender?: No. One live engine

Feex says

If IT said install the Sophos sensor and you landed on home.sophos.com, I would stop. Home is the household SKU. Central is the work console. I would also not run Home live next to Defender.

What is Sophos Home?

Sophos Home is the consumer antivirus. Sophos UI.exe is the Windows window. Central and Intercept X are workplace products.

If you have never used it

If a friend said "install Sophos", ask whether they meant Sophos Home or the work agent. Home is home.sophos.com. Intercept X and Sophos Central are what IT deploys. Sophos UI.exe is the home window. Home should take the antivirus slot. Home plus live Defender is the two-engine fight. HitmanPro is a different Sophos-owned scanner.

What is it used for?

Home resident antivirus

The Home agent registers as the active engine so Defender can go passive.

Home web console

You manage a handful of family PCs from home.sophos.com. That is not the company Central tenant IT uses.

Premium extras

Home Premium adds extras on the same Home SKU. It is still not Intercept X.

Who is it for?

Households that want Sophos without a company tenant
People who downloaded a Central sensor by mistake
Anyone with Sophos UI.exe next to live Defender

Current status

Actively offered as Sophos Home. This article is not Sophos Intercept X or Central.

How old is it?

Sophos is an old UK vendor. Sophos Home is the consumer SKU, not the 1980s floppy product and not Central. Current Home sits on a web console for your own PCs.

Versions

Major channels first. Exact build numbers are not all verified here.

Sophos Home Free

Sophos Home Premium

Intercept X (work, other product)

System requirements

Values follow the publisher's public guidance. Workload still changes the real need.

Minimum

Minimum system requirements
Operating system	Windows 10 or Windows 11, per Sophos Home
RAM	Sophos Home expects a current Windows PC with a few GB free. 4 GB is the comfortable class

Resource profile

CPU demand: Idle agent plus scans
Network demand: Home console and definitions

Installed processes

These executables belong to this product when it is installed.

Installed processes
Sophos UI.exe	Sophos Home desktop UI
SophosFileScanner.exe	Home scanner on many installs

Startup components

Sophos Home services start with Windows while Home owns protection.

File locations

Common Sophos Home locations
Typical install	C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos UI\

Common problems

Home agent on a work-managed PC

Central can already own the machine. Adding Home stacks two Sophos products plus maybe Defender.

Home plus live Defender

Home should take the slot. If MsMpEng.exe still scans, both engines are live.

Getting unstuck

Confirm the download came from home.sophos.com

A Central installer from IT is a different product. The window and policies will not match Home help articles.

Check Windows Security for Sophos Home

It should name Sophos after a successful Home register.

Use HitmanPro only as an on-demand extra

HitmanPro is not a second resident Home install.

Alternatives

Windows Security if you do not want a third-party home suite. Work PCs should follow IT's Central agent, not this Home SKU.

Official help and downloads

Start with the vendor. Random exe sites are not a support channel.

Official contacts
Download	home.sophos.com/ Official installer or vendor page
Help	support.sophos.com/ Vendor support
Official site	home.sophos.com/ Start here, not a random exe host

Related hardware

Home scans follow the disk. The web console does not replace RAM on the PC.

Technical details

Vendor version numbers change. This article does not pin a build.

Sources and verification

Reviewed by Feex editorial. Last verified August 2026 Status: Feex Reviewed. How we research.

Sophos Home official site · Vendor product page
Sophos Home help · Vendor support
Foxhole process map · First-party samples on Windows PCs. Not a lab benchmark.

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