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Failed to install CRTSETUP: general error.

Hi everyone,

Did anyone encountered this error before? Is re-install the only way?

Thank you.



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  • in reply to Gladys +2 verified

    As Gladys mentioned there is likely a 3'd party antivirus on the device. You can find more information on what was detected by checking the "avremove.log" located in C:\Windows\Temp\ or %temp%\.

    The following article is a good starting point as well. 
    - Failure to install Sophos due an issue uninstalling a 3rd party product

    In some cases, if you have already uninstalled the third party product, but the installation continues to fail with this error, this can be due to some registry keys or artifacts being left behind. If this is the case, the logs will allow you to see what was found.

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  • Hi Sophos Community,

    One of my companies user device is facing the same issue, we had installed SOPHOS ENDPOINT AGENT a long back and we have the 3rd party antivirus even before installation sophos and it was working fine from very long. Can anyone please help me. below you can find the error details:

    Sep 3, 2022 12:01 PM
    Failed to install CRTSETUP: general error.
    Sep 2, 2022 7:11 PM
    Failed to protect computer: 
    Sep 2, 2022 6:22 PM
    Failed to install Failed to install component(s): CRTSETUP: 8000ffff.

    Thankyou

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