I run Sophos on Mac 10.11.2 mac mini and lately it turned up a bunch of Genieo files and these zipdevils. They have clearly been stealthily installed on my machine and equipped with some kind of self-defence mechanism that stops Sophos deleting them. Sophos declared it was unable to remove them and they would have to be removed manually.

1. Sophos Uninstall Tool For Mac
2. Sophos Uninstall Script

Note: When clicking on the padlock to allow changes, ensure you use your MAC credentials. 2) Allowing Notifications: The macOS operating system will present users with a popup in order to enable notifications for programs. In this case, for Sophos Home, users will see the pop up on the top-right of their screen and may click Allow to proceed. Step by Step - Granting Full Disk Access. Open the Symantec Endpoint Protection client, and then click Symantec Endpoint Protection and choose Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection. Click the Symantec Endpoint Protection client icon on the menu bar, and then click Uninstall. Click Uninstall again to begin the uninstallation. To uninstall the Sophos Endpoint software from a Mac, do as follows. Find the Remove Sophos Endpoint icon and click it.

Sophos Uninstall Tool For Mac

Short post to learn how to install and uninstall Sophos Antivirus in Linux.

Sophos is a well-known antivirus for Windows, Linux, Mac platforms. Sophos also offers different security solutions along with antivirus. In this post we walk through the install, check and remove Sophos antivirus on Linux systems. You can download Sophos antivirus for Linux for free here.

How to install Sophos Antivirus in Linux

You can transfer the installer downloaded on a laptop or desktop on your Linux server. Or you can use tools like wget to download the installer directly on your Linux server. You can get a Linux installer link from your account on a website.

You will be having Sophos Antivirus with install.sh script within. For non-interactive setup executive script with below switches and you are good to go –

Antivirus is successfully installed on your server.

Check current status of Sophos Antivirus

Antivirus runs with service named sav-protect. So you can use normal Linux service status command to check the status of AV service.

You can see the recent two activities as a successful scheduled scan run and virus definition update in the last log lines.

How to uninstall Sophos Antivirus in Linux

Run uninstall.sh script located at /opt/sophos-av to uninstall Sophos Antivirus.

Sophos Uninstall Script

And AV is un-installed. You can confirm by checking status again which will result in an error.