Sophos Anti-Virus

A guide to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your computer

Sophos Anti-Virus is a software application. This page contains details on how to remove it from your PC. It is written by Sophos Limited. More information on Sophos Limited can be found here. Please open http://www.sophos.com if you want to read more on Sophos Anti-Virus on Sophos Limited's website. Usually the Sophos Anti-Virus application is installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus directory, depending on the user's option during install. The full command line for removing Sophos Anti-Virus is MsiExec.exe /X{85F78DA7-8E8E-49C9-969F-A62D2B43C046}. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may receive a notification for administrator rights. The application's main executable file is titled BackgroundScanClient.exe and its approximative size is 80.62 KB (82552 bytes).

Sophos Anti-Virus contains of the executables below. They take 14.60 MB (15313528 bytes) on disk.

• BackgroundScanClient.exe (80.62 KB)
• ForceUpdateAlongSideSGN.exe (293.10 KB)
• Native.exe (353.54 KB)
• sav32cli.exe (516.50 KB)
• SAVAdminService.exe (298.22 KB)
• SAVCleanupService.exe (165.79 KB)
• SavProgress.exe (486.98 KB)
• SavProxy.exe (88.73 KB)
• SavService.exe (219.61 KB)
• SAVTelem.exe (68.94 KB)
• sdcdevcon.exe (217.05 KB)
• sdcservice.exe (536.23 KB)
• ssr32.exe (147.55 KB)
• ssr64.exe (169.85 KB)
• WSCClient.exe (625.08 KB)
• swc_service.exe (351.60 KB)
• swi_di.exe (291.84 KB)
• swi_fc.exe (3.18 MB)
• swi_filter.exe (464.24 KB)
• swi_lsp32_util.exe (245.58 KB)
• swi_lspdiag.exe (208.55 KB)
• swi_lspdiag_64.exe (256.81 KB)
• swi_service.exe (3.46 MB)
• swi_update_64.exe (2.02 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 10.8.3.441 of Sophos Anti-Virus. You can find below info on other versions of Sophos Anti-Virus:

• 9.7.7
• 10.0.10
• 10.8.7.1000
• 10.8.4.227
• 10.7.3.120
• 10.2.7
• 10.3.2
• 10.8.9.610
• 10.3.15
• 10.3.1
• 10.6.4.1099
• 10.6.2.756
• 10.2.8
• 10.7.1.32
• 10.6.0
• 10.7.0.301
• 10.2.1
• 10.6.2.852
• 10.3.10
• 10.8.2.311
• 10.7.5.143
• 10.7.0.134
• 10.6.3.1039
• 10.6.2.263
• 10.5.2
• 10.6.4.939
• 10.8.9.292
• 10.0.8
• 10.7.2.49
• 10.8.1.398
• 10.3.3
• 10.8.13.42
• 10.3.13
• 10.7.6.152
• 10.8.2.342
• 10.8.4.97
• 10.8.4.233
• 10.7.5.211
• 10.8.2.363
• 10.3.11
• 10.0.4
• 10.6.3.537
• 10.8.1.316
• 10.2.9
• 10.8.5.330
• 10.2.3
• 10.0.6
• 10.8.10.810
• 10.6.1
• 10.3.14
• 10.8.11.22
• 10.3.6
• 10.8.1.417
• 10.7.4.79
• 10.8.1.286
• 10.0.0
• 10.8.1.217
• 10.8.14.9
• 10.0.3
• 10.0.11
• 10.8.0.146
• 10.3.12
• 10.3.7
• 10.5.3
• 10.8.8.337
• 10.8.11.41
• 10.8.2.334
• 10.6.4.1150
• 10.6.2.509
• 10.7.6.117
• 10.8.3.322
• 10.8.12.23
• 10.8.4.180
• 10.8.2.300
• 10.8.1.136
• 10.8.6.215
• 10.8.2.344
• 10.5.4
• 10.7.6.128
• 10.2.4
• 10.0.12

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How to erase Sophos Anti-Virus from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is an application by the software company Sophos Limited. Frequently, users choose to remove this application. Sometimes this is troublesome because removing this by hand takes some experience related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best EASY action to remove Sophos Anti-Virus is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and general tool to clean your Windows PC.

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful system utility.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the applications installed on the PC will appear

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Sophos Anti-Virus or simply click the Search feature and type in "Sophos Anti-Virus". If it exists on your system the Sophos Anti-Virus application will be found automatically. After you select Sophos Anti-Virus in the list of applications, some data regarding the application is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This explains the opinion other users have regarding Sophos Anti-Virus, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for Sophos Anti-Virus:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.sophos.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{85F78DA7-8E8E-49C9-969F-A62D2B43C046}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove Sophos Anti-Virus.


8. After removing Sophos Anti-Virus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of Sophos Anti-Virus that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited from your computer, we are not saying that Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited is not a good application for your PC. This page simply contains detailed info on how to remove Sophos Anti-Virus in case you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.