Sophos Anti-Virus
A guide to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your system
Sophos Anti-Virus is a software application. This page is comprised of details on how to remove it from your PC. It is written by Sophos Limited. Further information on Sophos Limited can be seen here. Please follow http://www.esp.sophos.com if you want to read more on Sophos Anti-Virus on Sophos Limited's website. The program is frequently placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus directory. Keep in mind that this location can differ depending on the user's choice. MsiExec.exe /X{6CA90A07-433B-4859-A785-006771D72109} is the full command line if you want to remove Sophos Anti-Virus. Sophos Anti-Virus's main file takes around 80.73 KB (82672 bytes) and is named BackgroundScanClient.exe.Sophos Anti-Virus contains of the executables below. They take 10.25 MB (10747744 bytes) on disk.
- BackgroundScanClient.exe (80.73 KB)
- ForceUpdateAlongSideSGN.exe (293.22 KB)
- Native.exe (309.57 KB)
- sav32cli.exe (516.50 KB)
- SAVAdminService.exe (246.08 KB)
- SAVCleanupService.exe (165.91 KB)
- SavProgress.exe (487.09 KB)
- SavProxy.exe (88.85 KB)
- SavService.exe (219.73 KB)
- SAVTelem.exe (69.05 KB)
- sdcdevcon.exe (217.16 KB)
- sdcservice.exe (536.35 KB)
- ssr32.exe (147.55 KB)
- ssr64.exe (169.85 KB)
- WSCClient.exe (275.55 KB)
- swc_service.exe (351.60 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)
The information on this page is only about version 10.8.2.344 of Sophos Anti-Virus. You can find below info on other releases of Sophos Anti-Virus:
- 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
- 10.8.4.233
- 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
- 10.5.4
- 10.7.6.128
- 10.2.4
- 10.0.12
Some files, folders and registry entries can be left behind when you are trying to remove Sophos Anti-Virus from your PC.
Folders remaining:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
- C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
Files remaining:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azyi.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azym.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azyq.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azyy.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azzi.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-azzw.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-babg.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-babs.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\age-baef.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\appc01.vdb
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\appfeed_manifest.dat
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\appfeed_part_0001.dat
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\AppFeedManager.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\ApplicationManagement.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\AuthorisedLists.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\auto-chc.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\BackgroundScanClient.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\BackgroundScanning.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\bank-gxl.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\bckdo-ai.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\bckdo-ak.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\betab-bs.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\BHOManagement.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-kn.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-kr.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-kz.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-lb.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-lf.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\blada-lg.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\bpaif.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Categories.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\cidsync.upd
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\cln01.vdb
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\cln02.vdb
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\ComponentManager.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\conan.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\concrt140.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Configuration.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DataControlManagement.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DataControlPlugin.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DCManagement.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\delf-gyp.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\delf-gyv.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\delf-gza.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DetectionFeedback.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DeviceControlPlugin.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docd-qif.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docd-qkc.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docd-qmw.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docdr-ff.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docph-br.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\docph-bv.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\DriveProcessor.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\drop-ahu.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\dwnl-wpb.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\edl01.vdb
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\edl02.vdb
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\EEConsumer.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\emot-aia.ide
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\emot-aid.ide
You will find in the Windows Registry that the following data will not be uninstalled; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\70A09AC6B33495847A580076177D1290
Use regedit.exe to remove the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\70A09AC6B33495847A580076177D1290\ProductName
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SAVAdminService\ImagePath
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SAVService\ImagePath
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sophos Device Control Service\ImagePath
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sophos Web Control Service\ImagePath
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\swi_service\ImagePath
A way to delete Sophos Anti-Virus from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO
Sophos Anti-Virus is a program marketed by Sophos Limited. Sometimes, people choose to uninstall this program. This can be hard because doing this manually takes some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best QUICK practice to uninstall 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 system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and general utility to optimize your computer.
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- download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
- set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
3. Click on the General Tools category
4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool
5. A list of the applications existing on your PC will be shown to you
6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Sophos Anti-Virus or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Sophos Anti-Virus". If it exists on your system the Sophos Anti-Virus program will be found automatically. Notice that when you click Sophos Anti-Virus in the list of apps, the following information regarding the application is shown to you:
- Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have regarding Sophos Anti-Virus, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
- Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
- Details regarding the program you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.
- The web site of the application is: http://www.esp.sophos.com
- The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{6CA90A07-433B-4859-A785-006771D72109}
8. After removing Sophos Anti-Virus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Sophos Anti-Virus which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your computer.
Your system will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.
Disclaimer
This page is not a piece of advice to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited from your PC, nor are we saying that Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited is not a good software application. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.
2018-10-25 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO
follow @DanielStatescuLast update on: 2018-10-25 14:29:52.800