Homelab Antivirus

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Introduction

Although the title of this article suggests you need some antivirus for your homelab, in reality you need something more robust if you plan to allow your homelab to do anything on the internet other than connect to your favourite vendor sites. You need a threat management / threat protection solution.

Solutions

The following are a number of free commercial-grade threat management solutions from Enterprise vendors which have been tested by the community, listed by category:

Free Security Software and Appliances

Category	Vendor	Product & Link	Notes
UTM	Sophos	UTM Home Edition	Free for up to 50 IPs on your network. Can run as a VM appliance or native physical.
Client AV	Sophos	Sophos Home Edition (Win/OSX)	Free for PCs and Macs
Client AV	Sophos	Sophos for Linux	Free for Linux
Firewall	Sophos	Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition	Includes anti-malware, web security and URL filtering, application control, IPS, traffic shaping, VPN, reporting and monitoring!
Firewall	pfsense	pfsense Firewall	Lightweight, free and open source firewall based on FreeBSD with a host of plugins and great community support. Runs well as a virtual appliance, or on low end hardware

Commercial Solutions (Trial)

Commercial Solutions offered as a trial basis

Category	Vendor	Product & Link	Notes
Various	McAfee	McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator	Commercial enterprise software, available as a trial