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Menu bar icon remains after uninstalling Sophos

I have a late-2012 MacBook Pro running OSX Mavericks (10.9.2) and I tried to uninstall Sophos Antivirus 9 software by dragging the Sophos folder to the trash. I did not see the Uninstall package in there. When I read the instructions for removing Sophos I found the Remove Sophos package in Applications under R (looked under U) and ran it, and it indicated that the uninstall was successful but the icon is still there. I’’’’ve tried searching for anything to do with Sophos and removing it from my hard drive. For another issue I had to do a Safe Boot and then reinstall the system software, but the Sophos icon is still there! Out, **bleep** spot! Anyone know how?

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0 brvx over 11 years ago

You could get EasyFind, or FindAnyFile (to run as root, hold Option>Find). Then enter "Sophos" and see what it comes up with. For some system items, you will not be able to move to trash directly, but must choose reveal in finder, then select move to trash and authenticate with your admin password.
With EasyFind, set settings to scan all files, ignore case, invisible files, files and folders, all words. You should probably be able to pick up bits and pieces that way.
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
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0 brvx over 11 years ago

You could get EasyFind, or FindAnyFile (to run as root, hold Option>Find). Then enter "Sophos" and see what it comes up with. For some system items, you will not be able to move to trash directly, but must choose reveal in finder, then select move to trash and authenticate with your admin password.
With EasyFind, set settings to scan all files, ignore case, invisible files, files and folders, all words. You should probably be able to pick up bits and pieces that way.
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
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