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Removing Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

spike

UPDATE: For Version 9 see this post: Remove (uninstall) Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition (the free version)

 

What to do

  1. Find the folder /Applications and double-click Sophos Remove.
  2. In the confirmation dialog, click Remove Sophos Anti-Virus .
  3. In the user account dialog, type an administrator name and password. Click OK.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition is now removed from your Mac.

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    I regularly check all my external drives and, so far, I have had no problems with Sophos; not even signs of my MacBook slowing in any way. So after reading about the problems that other were having I decided to run concurrent custom scans on all the drives, including scanning archives. As I type this Sophos is quite happily scanning (yet again) my system drive (250GB), two storage drives of 500GB each, a 250GB archive drive, and a 1TB (mirrored raid) backup drive; apart from the noise of drive activity I don't even notice the scans running, and when I checked just now Sophos is using a total of 92.9mb of my 4GB system RAM - how little is that! For my mind an excellent AV application - thank-you SophosLabs. :smileyvery-happy:

    Oh, and before some cynic suggests it, I don't now or have ever worked for Sophos!

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    Hi Sandy and thanks for the welcoming message!

    Can anyone help me? I've installed Sophos 3 yrs ago and am very happy with it, so how can I install the new version if I can't find that uninstall Sophos file? Is there any way to maybe download it? Or any way around it? Please...

    Thanks for your help in advance ;)

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    Try downloading the trial of the enterprise version and "updating" -- the trial will include the uninstaller, which should then allow you to fully uninstall in preparation for using the Home version.

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    Thanks, it worked! Hurray!

    Have a nice day

    Chrystele

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    I tried to remove Sophos AV by moving it to the trash, and I get the error message when I try to install the upgrade version. After reading your instructions I didn't find the "remove sophos..." application in the Library folder or anywhere else in my Mac HD. I reinstalled the original version, but still no sign of the "remove sophos.." application. How should I proceed to do a clean uninstall if I don't have the removal tool? Thanks.

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    Try downloading the trial of the enterprise version and "updating" -- the trial will include the uninstaller, which should then allow you to fully uninstall in preparation for using the Home version.

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    Hi I have Sophos Antivirus version 4.9.41 and it ends March 2011 so I want to use the free version for Home but it won't let me upgrade without removing the previous version - how do I do this as there is no uninstall/ remove I can find??

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    Hi I should say its for a Mac 10.5.8

    Thanks

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    I've tried downloading the free trial enterprise but of course that's only for a PC so that's not a solution... 

    Sorry to be a pain but I thought it would be so easy and its now taken me over an hour and I'm no further forward......

    Trust you will answer my concerns

    Cheers

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    https://secure.sophos.com/support/updates/mac.html

    The free trial enterprise is not only for PC; it's just the enterprise console that's for PC.  If you read the rest of the page, there are a number of variants of the endpoint software you can download for MacOS.  The one you want is SAV7 for Stand Alone Computer: https://secure.sophos.com/support/updates/dp/full/savosx72sa.dmg

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