Sophos AutoUpdate

A guide to uninstall Sophos AutoUpdate from your system

Sophos AutoUpdate is a software application. This page contains details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It is developed by Sophos Limited. You can find out more on Sophos Limited or check for application updates here. Please open http://www.sophos.com/ if you want to read more on Sophos AutoUpdate on Sophos Limited's page. Usually the Sophos AutoUpdate program is to be found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate folder, depending on the user's option during install. Sophos AutoUpdate's entire uninstall command line is MsiExec.exe /X{AFBCA1B9-496C-4AE6-98AE-3EA1CFF65C54}. Sophos AutoUpdate's main file takes around 1.99 MB (2086944 bytes) and its name is SophosUpdate.exe.

Sophos AutoUpdate contains of the executables below. They take 7.79 MB (8166248 bytes) on disk.

• ALMon.exe (1.45 MB)
• ALsvc.exe (755.96 KB)
• ALUpdate.exe (2.35 MB)
• SophosUpdate.exe (1.99 MB)
• AUTelem.exe (608.41 KB)
• GatherTelem.exe (290.78 KB)
• SubmitTelem.exe (394.30 KB)

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The information on this page is only about version 5.12.261 of Sophos AutoUpdate. You can find below info on other versions of Sophos AutoUpdate:

• 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
• 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
• 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 an application offered by Sophos Limited. Frequently, computer users try to remove it. This is efortful because doing this manually takes some advanced knowledge regarding Windows program uninstallation. One of the best EASY action to remove 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 a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very efficient uninstaller and all around tool to take care of your system.

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• visit Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with the program's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the programs installed on the computer will appear

6. Navigate 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 automatically. After you select Sophos AutoUpdate in the list of programs, some information about the application is shown to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about Sophos AutoUpdate, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the application you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance 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{AFBCA1B9-496C-4AE6-98AE-3EA1CFF65C54}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. accept the removal by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Sophos AutoUpdate.


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

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited from your computer, we are not saying that Sophos AutoUpdate by Sophos Limited is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove Sophos AutoUpdate in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.