Sophos Anti-Virus

How to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your system

This web page contains complete information on how to remove Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows. It was created for Windows 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 Anti-Virus on Sophos Limited's web page. Sophos Anti-Virus is commonly installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus directory, however this location may vary a lot depending on the user's option while installing the program. You can uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{CBA26491-B602-484E-B846-00623CA80D03}. Keep in mind that you might get a notification for administrator rights. Sophos Anti-Virus's primary file takes about 80.62 KB (82552 bytes) and is called BackgroundScanClient.exe.

Sophos Anti-Virus installs the following the executables on your PC, occupying about 10.21 MB (10704240 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 (298.72 KB)
• SAVCleanupService.exe (165.79 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_lsp32_util.exe (245.46 KB)
• swi_lspdiag.exe (208.43 KB)
• swi_lspdiag_64.exe (256.70 KB)
• swi_service.exe (3.46 MB)
• swi_update_64.exe (2.02 MB)

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This web page is about Sophos Anti-Virus version 10.8.4.233 only. For other Sophos Anti-Virus versions please click below:

• 9.7.7
• 10.0.10
• 10.8.7.1000
• 10.8.4.227
• 10.7.3.120
• 10.8.3.441
• 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
• 10.7.5.211
• 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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A way to erase Sophos Anti-Virus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is a program by the software company Sophos Limited. Some users want to remove this program. This is easier said than done because removing this by hand requires some experience regarding PCs. The best EASY practice to remove Sophos Anti-Virus is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your system.

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• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the applications installed on the computer will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you locate Sophos Anti-Virus or simply activate the Search field and type in "Sophos Anti-Virus". The Sophos Anti-Virus program will be found automatically. When you click Sophos Anti-Virus in the list of apps, the following information regarding the application is made available to you:

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

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

• The web site of the application is: http://www.sophos.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{CBA26491-B602-484E-B846-00623CA80D03}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will show up. accept the removal by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus.


8. After uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items that belong Sophos Anti-Virus that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing Sophos Anti-Virus using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

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

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice 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 software application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove Sophos Anti-Virus supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.