Sophos Anti-Virus

A guide to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your computer

This page is about Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your computer. The Windows version was created by Sophos Limited. Go over here for more details on Sophos Limited. Click on http://www.sophos.de to get more details about Sophos Anti-Virus on Sophos Limited's website. Sophos Anti-Virus is typically installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus folder, depending on the user's choice. You can uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{1DE930DF-6191-4859-A97E-E37029B1EA08}. Note that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. BackgroundScanClient.exe is the programs's main file and it takes around 73.78 KB (75552 bytes) on disk.

Sophos Anti-Virus installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 14.54 MB (15249752 bytes) on disk.

• BackgroundScanClient.exe (73.78 KB)
• ForceUpdateAlongSideSGN.exe (284.54 KB)
• Native.exe (343.60 KB)
• sav32cli.exe (516.50 KB)
• SAVAdminService.exe (285.07 KB)
• SAVCleanupService.exe (158.48 KB)
• SavProgress.exe (477.80 KB)
• SavProxy.exe (81.85 KB)
• SavService.exe (211.98 KB)
• SAVTelem.exe (63.21 KB)
• sdcdevcon.exe (209.44 KB)
• sdcservice.exe (547.89 KB)
• ssr32.exe (147.55 KB)
• ssr64.exe (169.85 KB)
• WSCClient.exe (613.80 KB)
• swc_service.exe (352.65 KB)
• swi_di.exe (292.88 KB)
• swi_fc.exe (3.18 MB)
• swi_filter.exe (465.29 KB)
• swi_lsp32_util.exe (246.63 KB)
• swi_lspdiag.exe (209.59 KB)
• swi_lspdiag_64.exe (257.86 KB)
• swi_service.exe (3.47 MB)
• swi_update_64.exe (2.02 MB)

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The current web page applies to Sophos Anti-Virus version 10.8.8.337 only. Click on the links below for other Sophos Anti-Virus versions:

• 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
• 10.8.11.41
• 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 delete Sophos Anti-Virus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is an application marketed by the software company Sophos Limited. Frequently, people choose to erase this application. Sometimes this is hard because uninstalling this manually requires some knowledge related to removing Windows applications by hand. One of the best EASY manner to erase Sophos Anti-Virus is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your computer.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of tools.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


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

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

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding Sophos Anti-Virus, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you want to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

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

• The web site of the program is: http://www.sophos.de
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{1DE930DF-6191-4859-A97E-E37029B1EA08}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will appear. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Sophos Anti-Virus.


8. After uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong 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 can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited from your PC, we are not saying that Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited is not a good application for your PC. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove Sophos Anti-Virus 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' PCs.