Sophos AutoUpdate

A guide to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate from your system

You can find below detailed information on how to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate for Windows. It is developed by Sophos Limited. More information on Sophos Limited can be found here. You can get more details related to Sophos AutoUpdate at http://www.sophos.com/. Sophos AutoUpdate is typically installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate folder, regulated by the user's choice. You can remove Sophos AutoUpdate by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{7CD26A0C-9B59-4E84-B5EE-B386B2F7AA16}. Note that you might be prompted for administrator rights. The program's main executable file is called SophosUpdate.exe and occupies 1.62 MB (1703208 bytes).

The executables below are part of Sophos AutoUpdate. They occupy about 4.61 MB (4833440 bytes) on disk.

• ALMon.exe (1.52 MB)
• ALsvc.exe (332.79 KB)
• ALUpdate.exe (1.14 MB)
• SophosUpdate.exe (1.62 MB)

This info is about Sophos AutoUpdate version 4.0.5.39 alone. Click on the links below for other Sophos AutoUpdate versions:

• 5.8.335
• 5.7.51
• 5.0.0.39
• 3.1.1.18
• 5.8.358
• 5.1.1.1
• 2.7.8.335
• 4.3.10.27
• 5.6.332
• 4.1.0.273
• 5.6.423
• 5.11.206
• 5.2.0.221
• 2.7.1
• 5.1.2.0
• 5.4.0.724
• 5.12.206
• 2.9.0.344
• 5.7.220
• 5.16.37
• 5.5.3.0
• 5.10.139
• 6.15.1417
• 4.1.0.65
• 4.1.0.143
• 3.1.4.81
• 2.7.5.326
• 5.3.0.516
• 5.6.484
• 5.14.36
• 6.16.878
• 2.5.10
• 5.2.0.276
• 5.7.533
• 5.5.2.1
• 5.11.177
• 2.6.0
• 4.2.2.1
• 5.18.10.0
• 5.4.0.751
• 5.17.243.0
• 2.10.1.357
• 2.5.9
• 6.15.1347
• 5.15.166
• 5.12.261
• 3.1.4.241
• 2.5.30
• 4.2.0.37
• 2.7.4.317
• 5.10.126

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How to remove Sophos AutoUpdate from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos AutoUpdate is a program by the software company Sophos Limited. Frequently, people try to erase this program. This can be troublesome because doing this by hand requires some experience regarding Windows program uninstallation. One of the best SIMPLE procedure to erase Sophos AutoUpdate is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around utility to maximize the performance of your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the applications installed on your PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Sophos AutoUpdate or simply click the Search feature and type in "Sophos AutoUpdate". The Sophos AutoUpdate app will be found automatically. When you select Sophos AutoUpdate in the list of applications, the following information about the application is made available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have about Sophos AutoUpdate, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Sophos AutoUpdate:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.sophos.com/
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{7CD26A0C-9B59-4E84-B5EE-B386B2F7AA16}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will appear. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove Sophos AutoUpdate.


8. After uninstalling Sophos AutoUpdate, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong Sophos AutoUpdate that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Sophos AutoUpdate using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

Your system will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited from your computer, nor are we saying that Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited is not a good software application. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.