Applies to: Sophos Home for Windows
This article shows changes added to the Sophos Home for Windows version 2024.3 that starting rolling out on July 17, 2025 through July 24, 2025.
Available for Windows 10 64-bit and above, this update will be automatically applied.
Fixes / Improvements
- Replaced Home Clean component with Sophos System Protection (SSP) scan.
- Renamed the "Clean" button to "Scan" in the Sophos Home Dashboard.
- For Sophos Home Premium, by default, the "Scan" button triggers a quick scan, which now has a dropdown option to invoke a full SSP scan
- For Sophos Home Free, the "Scan" button triggers a full scan.
- Removed Privacy Protection tile from the local app and the Sophos Home dashboard, including the features under it, ie, "Camguard mitigation".
- Introduced new feature, Hardware Breakpoint Guard (HBG). The HMPA HBG mitigation monitors for the registration of hardware breakpoints and generates an event that enables behavioral rules to terminate a corresponding process if it detects a hardware exploitation.
- Updated Sophos Home to 2024.3
Note: Upon completion of the release, fixes and improvements will start rolling in the backend and will finish applying by July 24, 2025.