Sophos Anti-Virus

A guide to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your system

This web page contains thorough information on how to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows. The Windows version was created by Sophos Limited. Further information on Sophos Limited can be found here. More info about the app Sophos Anti-Virus can be seen at http://www.sophos.com. Sophos Anti-Virus is typically installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus directory, however this location can differ a lot depending on the user's decision when installing the program. You can remove Sophos Anti-Virus by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{095BB5FF-C89D-449B-9D6D-3B9CCB3BEFD8}. Keep in mind that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. BackgroundScanClient.exe is the Sophos Anti-Virus's main executable file and it occupies around 80.73 KB (82672 bytes) on disk.

Sophos Anti-Virus installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 14.61 MB (15314976 bytes) on disk.

• BackgroundScanClient.exe (80.73 KB)
• ForceUpdateAlongSideSGN.exe (293.22 KB)
• Native.exe (353.66 KB)
• sav32cli.exe (516.50 KB)
• SAVAdminService.exe (298.34 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 (625.20 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 10.8.3.322 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
• 10.8.12.23
• 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 the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is a program by Sophos Limited. Sometimes, people decide to uninstall this program. Sometimes this is hard because removing this manually takes some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. One of the best EASY practice to uninstall 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 Windows system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and general utility to optimize your Windows system.

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• visit Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the programs existing on your PC will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs 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 very quickly. Notice that when you click Sophos Anti-Virus in the list of applications, some information regarding the program 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, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the app you want to remove, 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{095BB5FF-C89D-449B-9D6D-3B9CCB3BEFD8}

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


8. After uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to proceed 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 removing Sophos Anti-Virus using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your system.

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

Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to remove Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited from your computer, nor are we saying that Sophos Anti-Virus by Sophos Limited is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove Sophos Anti-Virus supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.