Sophos Anti-Virus

A guide to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your system

You can find on this page details on how to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows. It is made by Sophos Limited. You can find out more on Sophos Limited or check for application updates here. Click on http://www.sophos.com to get more info about Sophos Anti-Virus on Sophos Limited's website. The application is often installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus folder (same installation drive as Windows). MsiExec.exe /X{9ACB414D-9347-40B6-A453-5EFB2DB59DFA} is the full command line if you want to remove Sophos Anti-Virus. The program's main executable file occupies 1.43 MB (1496600 bytes) on disk and is named SavMain.exe.

The following executables are contained in Sophos Anti-Virus. They take 8.20 MB (8598368 bytes) on disk.

• BackgroundScanClient.exe (74.96 KB)
• native.exe (122.50 KB)
• sav32cli.exe (327.02 KB)
• SAVAdminService.exe (207.52 KB)
• SAVCleanupService.exe (142.02 KB)
• SavMain.exe (1.43 MB)
• SavProgress.exe (381.86 KB)
• SavProxy.exe (78.52 KB)
• SavService.exe (136.52 KB)
• WSCClient.exe (281.77 KB)
• swi_lsp32_util.exe (134.52 KB)
• swi_lspdiag.exe (152.52 KB)
• swi_lspdiag_64.exe (182.02 KB)
• swi_service.exe (2.69 MB)
• swi_update_64.exe (1.92 MB)

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This data is about Sophos Anti-Virus version 10.0.3 only. For more 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
• 10.8.4.233
• 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
• 10.0.11
• 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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Quite a few files, folders and Windows registry data can be left behind when you remove Sophos Anti-Virus from your computer.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\sophos_{E17FE03B-0501-4aaa-BC69-0129D965F311}\CommonAppData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\sophos_{E17FE03B-0501-4aaa-BC69-0129D965F311}\program files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus

Check for and delete the following files from your disk when you uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\BackgroundScanClient.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\cidsync.upd
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\ComponentManager.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\conan.dll

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be uninstalled; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C269D879-0B54-45be-BFEB-B145099C3C0B}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{ED15FC1F-F47C-4337-BE02-BC5FA38UserNameE07}

Use regedit.exe to delete the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00920966-F6E8-461a-BF85-5F3AF429AC7F}\InprocServer32\
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7BDAA369-C2EE-44f3-B0A9-B25722284A41}\InprocServer32\
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CFE168D8-C9F1-4716-9C08-C82852EFF558}\InprocServer32\
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C269D879-0B54-45BE-BFEB-B145099C3C0B}\1.0\0\win32\

A way to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Anti-Virus is an application by Sophos Limited. Frequently, users try to erase it. This is hard because deleting this by hand takes some skill regarding removing Windows programs manually. The best EASY procedure to erase 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 system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around utility to clean your system.

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

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


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

6. Navigate the list of applications until you locate Sophos Anti-Virus or simply click the Search field and type in "Sophos Anti-Virus". If it exists on your system the Sophos Anti-Virus app will be found automatically. Notice that when you click Sophos Anti-Virus in the list , the following data regarding the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other people have regarding Sophos Anti-Virus, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the application 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 application is: http://www.sophos.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{9ACB414D-9347-40B6-A453-5EFB2DB59DFA}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. Confirm the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove Sophos Anti-Virus.


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

Your system 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 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 info on how to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus supposing you want to. 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' computers.