SurfRight

SurfRight was a Dutch company from Hengelo that made HitmanPro, a second-opinion scanner designed to be run on a machine that already had antivirus and was infected anyway. It scanned with multiple engines in the cloud, took a few minutes, and was widely recommended for exactly that job; HitmanPro.Alert added live protection against exploit techniques and ransomware behaviour. Sophos acquired SurfRight in 2015. The technology was absorbed into Sophos's own endpoint products — the exploit-prevention and anti-ransomware components of Sophos Intercept X descend from HitmanPro.Alert — and the HitmanPro tools continue to be published by Sophos rather than by SurfRight. Anything listed here under the SurfRight name is therefore historical branding for products Sophos now owns and maintains.

Country

🇳🇱Netherlands

Headquarters

🇳🇱Hengelo, Netherlands

Year Established

2006

Employees

50

Customers

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Users

20M users (2015)Source: Web search — halcyonit.co.uk

Revenue

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Website

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/hitmanpro

Status

Acquired

Acquired by

Sophos