Sophos AutoUpdate

A guide to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate from your PC

Sophos AutoUpdate is a Windows application. Read more about how to remove it from your computer. The Windows release was created by Sophos Limited. You can find out more on Sophos Limited or check for application updates here. Click on http://www.sophos.com/ to get more data about Sophos AutoUpdate on Sophos Limited's website. Usually the Sophos AutoUpdate application is placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate directory, depending on the user's option during install. MsiExec.exe /X{AFBCA1B9-496C-4AE6-98AE-3EA1CFF65C54} is the full command line if you want to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate. Sophos AutoUpdate's main file takes around 1.89 MB (1977808 bytes) and is called SophosUpdate.exe.

Sophos AutoUpdate contains of the executables below. They take 7.28 MB (7636864 bytes) on disk.

• ALMon.exe (1.41 MB)
• ALsvc.exe (743.84 KB)
• ALUpdate.exe (2.23 MB)
• SophosUpdate.exe (1.89 MB)
• AUTelem.exe (481.54 KB)
• GatherTelem.exe (279.05 KB)
• SubmitTelem.exe (294.34 KB)

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The current web page applies to Sophos AutoUpdate version 5.7.51 alone. Click on the links below for other Sophos AutoUpdate versions:

• 5.8.335
• 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
• 4.0.5.39
• 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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A way to delete Sophos AutoUpdate from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos AutoUpdate is a program released by Sophos Limited. Some computer users decide to erase this application. Sometimes this is hard because doing this by hand takes some knowledge related to Windows internal functioning. The best EASY solution to erase Sophos AutoUpdate is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and general tool to optimize your computer.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire the program's interface and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows tool.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the programs installed on your computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find Sophos AutoUpdate or simply click the Search field and type in "Sophos AutoUpdate". If it exists on your system the Sophos AutoUpdate application will be found very quickly. After you click Sophos AutoUpdate in the list of programs, the following information regarding the program is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have regarding Sophos AutoUpdate, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Sophos AutoUpdate:

• The software company is: http://www.sophos.com/
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{AFBCA1B9-496C-4AE6-98AE-3EA1CFF65C54}

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


8. After removing Sophos AutoUpdate, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong Sophos AutoUpdate which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Sophos AutoUpdate with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited from your PC, nor are we saying that Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited is not a good software application. This page simply contains detailed info on how to remove Sophos AutoUpdate in case 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 discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.