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Goodbye Sophos - hello Avast.

finepiks

I've finally uninstalled Sophos and won't be using it again. I'm grateful that the developers make it a free app but it's caused me too many hassles recently with the constant updating that never stops, on access scan constantly being greying out and trying to do a full system scan takes hours and hours just to calculate the files to scan before it scans anything, and always the suggested solution is either to reboot or remove and reinstall. That's not how an app should be, free or not! So I've switched over to Avast which is working perfectly at the moment (of course only time will tell if it stays like that).

Thanks again for the work Sophos does to make this free but much more needs to be done before I'd consider switching back to it, unless someone convinces me otherwise!!

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    Just to update this, Avast has been working absolutely flawlessly now for over 2 weeks so looks like I'll be sticking with it.

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    What did you do to get Sophos to remove, I am running windows xp and the add/remove program does not allow me to remove the Sophos AV program. Says I need to be a Sophos administrator. Program was supplied to me by the company I work for, now they will not give me technical support because it is not a network (co. owned) computer. They supplied the instructions and passwords to download and install on personal pc's but now won't support when personal pc's can't remove the software. I contacted Sophos support and they tell me they can't support due to company license aggreements. So I am stuck with this program on my pc, I am running Avast and it seems to be co-existing with Sophos for the moment. Do you know of a download that will get rid of Sophos? Thanks.

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    Hello Kevin,

    Sophos' support is correct - won't comment on your site's support. Please drop me a PM (here or on SophosTalk - looks like you've also singed up there), maybe I can help you but it doesn't belong here.

    Christian

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    Update - have been using Avast for nearly 4 months now without a single hitch, and not once have I needed their forum. But here's something - was recently having problems installing the new 10.8.3 update and ended up doing large maintenance procedures prior to getting 10.8.3 to install. One of the maintenance/clean up programs I used is called AppleJack. I was amazed to see how many .xml files from sophos it removed as part of its cache cleaning. There were hundreds if not thousands, and only sophos, very little else. And this was after having done a full automated clean up using Onyx.

    Sophos are you bloating our systems, and is your uninstall not doing a proper job?

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    Interesting, I've been having huge issues with sophos too. Your post has got me a bit more worried now.

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    Sophos is definitely causing some slow downs on our Mac. However, when I tested Avast I had major problems with Kernel Panics. I had a panic while installing, one while updating and one while attempting to uninstall it! I also didn't like the way Avast proxies all web and email traffic. So, while Sophos is rather cumbersome, I found Avast to be even worse for us. Just my experiences - yours may vary...

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