Sophos Management Communications System

How to uninstall Sophos Management Communications System from your system

This page contains detailed information on how to uninstall Sophos Management Communications System for Windows. It was created for Windows by Sophos Limited. Take a look here for more info on Sophos Limited. More information about the program Sophos Management Communications System can be seen at http://www.sophos.com/. Sophos Management Communications System is commonly installed in the C:\Program Files\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint directory, but this location may vary a lot depending on the user's decision when installing the application. The entire uninstall command line for Sophos Management Communications System is MsiExec.exe /X{2C14E1A2-C4EB-466E-8374-81286D723D3A}. The program's main executable file is called McsAgent.exe and its approximative size is 1.24 MB (1301976 bytes).

Sophos Management Communications System is composed of the following executables which take 2.88 MB (3017440 bytes) on disk:

• McsAgent.exe (1.24 MB)
• McsClient.exe (1.64 MB)

The current web page applies to Sophos Management Communications System version 4.7.15 only. For more Sophos Management Communications System versions please click below:

• 4.14.203.0
• 4.8.5
• 4.18.215
• 4.12.686.0
• 4.20.20
• 4.3.0.107
• 4.15.79.0
• 4.14.353.0
• 4.19.550
• 4.0.0.249
• 4.3.0.49
• 4.1.1.16
• 4.12.179.0
• 2.0.2.3
• 3.0.3.1
• 4.17.112
• 4.3.1.5
• 4.16.265
• 4.9.204
• 4.17.20
• 4.3.3.0
• 2.0.1
• 4.11.13.0
• 3.0.1.2
• 4.13.16.0
• 4.20.46
• 4.15.95.0
• 4.0.0.264
• 4.3.2.1
• 4.12.325.0
• 2.0.0
• 4.18.256
• 4.4.309
• 4.10.423.0
• 4.9.462
• 4.12.393.0
• 4.15.70.0
• 4.17.123
• 4.11.127.0
• 1.5.8
• 4.6.0
• 4.17.122
• 4.1.2.1
• 4.9.424

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If you're planning to uninstall Sophos Management Communications System you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall Sophos Management Communications System from your computer:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Certificates\Management Communications System
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System

Check for and remove the following files from your disk when you uninstall Sophos Management Communications System:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\integrity.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsAdapter.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsAgent.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsClient.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsEvents.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\NOTICE.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\scf.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\sof.dat
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos Management Communications System.msi
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Certificates\Management Communications System\sophosca1.crl
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Certificates\Management Communications System\sophosca1.crt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Certificates\Management Communications System\sophosca2.crl
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Certificates\Management Communications System\sophosca2.crt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\Config\Config.xml
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\integrity.dat
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsAdapter.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsAgent.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsClient.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\McsEvents.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\NOTICE.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\scf.dat
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\0e1765fd-d6ab-4078-9fc2-512b6d441095\mcsep\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\sof.dat

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sophos\Management Communications System
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\2A1E41C2BE4CE66438471882D627D3A3
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\2A1E41C2BE4CE66438471882D627D3A3

Additional values that are not cleaned:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\2A1E41C2BE4CE66438471882D627D3A3\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sophos MCS Agent\ImagePath
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sophos MCS Client\ImagePath

How to remove Sophos Management Communications System from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Management Communications System is an application offered by the software company Sophos Limited. Frequently, users choose to erase it. This can be hard because uninstalling this by hand takes some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best EASY solution to erase Sophos Management Communications System 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 Windows PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and general utility to optimize your Windows computer.

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications installed on the PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Sophos Management Communications System or simply click the Search field and type in "Sophos Management Communications System". The Sophos Management Communications System app will be found automatically. When you click Sophos Management Communications System in the list of applications, some information about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about Sophos Management Communications System, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the app you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Sophos Management Communications System:

• The web site of the application is: http://www.sophos.com/
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{2C14E1A2-C4EB-466E-8374-81286D723D3A}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will come up. accept the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall Sophos Management Communications System.


8. After removing Sophos Management Communications System, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Sophos Management Communications System that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing Sophos Management Communications System with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove Sophos Management Communications System by Sophos Limited from your computer, nor are we saying that Sophos Management Communications System by Sophos Limited is not a good application for your PC. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove Sophos Management Communications System supposing 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.