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Scripted Uninstall of Sophos

packman73

Looking for a scripted uninstall of Sophos.  We have over 2000 endpoints at 420+ remote locations which are mainly POS systems running XP or Windows 7.  We can't take control of these systems to manually uninstall Sophos if problems arise (and they have).  I've talked to Sophos support about this and they don't have an uninstall script for Sophos 10.0 from what I've been told.  

I've found all the MSIEXEC uninstall strings within the registry but running those remotely via PsExec does not work, not sure why.

I find it interesting that as good as Sophos is of uninstalling ever other major AV/EPP product on the market to install their product on an end-point, they offer no means (other than touch each endpoint manually) to uninstall their own product.

If anyone has any information that would help us, that would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Art

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    Hi,

    I'm surprised that running the MSI uninstall strings don't work.  Could it be that Tamper Protection is enabled on the machines and that is preventing the uninstall?

    If Tamper Protection is disabled and you create a batch file with the uninstall commands in and try to run that using psexec does that work, having tested that the batch file works when run locally?

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Hi,

    I'm surprised that running the MSI uninstall strings don't work.  Could it be that Tamper Protection is enabled on the machines and that is preventing the uninstall?

    If Tamper Protection is disabled and you create a batch file with the uninstall commands in and try to run that using psexec does that work, having tested that the batch file works when run locally?

    Regards,

    Jak

    :22071
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