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Sophos Uninstall Issue

Good Morning

At my workplace we use Sophos Endpoint Security and Control v9.5 and I'm having an issue on one of the machines its installed on I wonder if anyone can suggest anything to assist me?

The PC in question had Sophos installed (via a network share) but upon first install when it does its initial update (the 3 stage update) the update window would close once it got to 'Installing Package 1 of..

Now I assumed that I had mistyped the admin password/ID so I went to uninstall it.  However when I try and uninstall Sophos it asks for a 'Sophos Anti-Virus.msi' file.  I browsed to this file on the network server but the uninstaller would not accept this MSI (I've seen a few threads on Google with this issue with no successful resolutions).

I have tried reinstalling Sophos again (same thing happened) and I've tried absolutely everything to remove Sophos, I've manually cleared the registry, manually deleted the files, logged onto safemode to try and remove it I even reinstalled the Windows Installer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5a58b56f-60b6-4412-95b9-54d056d6f9f4&displaylang=en_) as it was suggested as a way to get round this issue on the net.  Nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Neal

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  • Hi Christian and thanks for replying

    The GUI doesn't even seem to open, I can right click on the Sophos Icon and choose 'Open Endpoint....' but nothing happens.  I did remove HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall keys for Sophos but it didn't seem to make any difference (it still appears in the add/remove Programs list but no longer has a 'remove' button next to it)  I went through the registry keys several times and I'm sure I have got everything.

    Its quite frustrating, very annoying to have to reimage this machine just because of this problem, but thats looking like the easiest solution at the moment.

    I'll give msicuu2.exe a whirl first though!

    Thanks for your help

    Neal

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  • Hi Christian and thanks for replying

    The GUI doesn't even seem to open, I can right click on the Sophos Icon and choose 'Open Endpoint....' but nothing happens.  I did remove HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall keys for Sophos but it didn't seem to make any difference (it still appears in the add/remove Programs list but no longer has a 'remove' button next to it)  I went through the registry keys several times and I'm sure I have got everything.

    Its quite frustrating, very annoying to have to reimage this machine just because of this problem, but thats looking like the easiest solution at the moment.

    I'll give msicuu2.exe a whirl first though!

    Thanks for your help

    Neal

    :8459
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