Sophos Anti-Virus

A way to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your PC

This web page is about Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows. Here you can find details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It was coded for Windows by Sophos Plc. Open here where you can find out more on Sophos Plc. You can get more details about Sophos Anti-Virus at http://www.sophos.com. Usually the Sophos Anti-Virus program is to be found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus folder, depending on the user's option during install. The full command line for removing Sophos Anti-Virus is MsiExec.exe /X{9ACB414D-9347-40B6-A453-5EFB2DB59DFA}. Keep in mind that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may be prompted for administrator rights. SavMain.exe is the programs's main file and it takes circa 1.40 MB (1465584 bytes) on disk.

Sophos Anti-Virus is comprised of the following executables which take 5.93 MB (6212888 bytes) on disk:

• BackgroundScanClient.exe (50.73 KB)
• native.exe (41.50 KB)
• sav32cli.exe (309.23 KB)
• SAVAdminService.exe (159.23 KB)
• SAVCleanupService.exe (102.23 KB)
• SavMain.exe (1.40 MB)
• SavProgress.exe (326.73 KB)
• SavProxy.exe (22.23 KB)
• SavService.exe (95.23 KB)
• WSCClient.exe (198.23 KB)
• swi_config.exe (1.28 MB)
• swi_lsp_installer.exe (197.23 KB)
• swi_lsp_installer_64.exe (234.23 KB)
• swi_lsp_install_wrapper.exe (81.23 KB)
• swi_service.exe (1.47 MB)

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This web page is about Sophos Anti-Virus version 9.5.3 alone. You can find below info on other versions of Sophos Anti-Virus:

• 7.6.8
• 7.6.0
• 9.0.5
• 9.5.1
• 7.6.2
• 7.6.5
• 9.5.2
• 9.5.6

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How to remove Sophos Anti-Virus from your computer with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is an application released by Sophos Plc. Frequently, people try to erase this program. Sometimes this can be hard because doing this by hand requires some know-how related to PCs. The best EASY manner to erase 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 PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your PC.

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful program.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool


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

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate 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 program will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click Sophos Anti-Virus in the list of apps, the following information about the application is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other people have about Sophos Anti-Virus, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

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

• The publisher is: http://www.sophos.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{9ACB414D-9347-40B6-A453-5EFB2DB59DFA}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will show up. Confirm the removal by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove Sophos Anti-Virus.


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

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

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Plc from your PC, we are not saying that Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Plc is not a good application. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall 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 discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.