I have sophos on my mac and I've tried deleting the application by throwing it away into my bin. I searched as much as finder/spotlight can find about sophos and threw those away. But after restarting my mac, the sophos icon at the top is still there. How can I remove it completely?
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Uninstalling Sophos
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Not sure if this will help anyone or not but it took me ages to work out that the folder with the 'Remove' package in it is NOT in Application Support but loose in Library, so the path should be:
/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Remove Sophos Anti-Virus.pkg
Not sure why, but it didn't seem to come up as a result when searching with Spotlight.
/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Remove Sophos Anti-Virus.pkg
Not sure why, but it didn't seem to come up as a result when searching with Spotlight.
Removing Sophos from menu bar
If you have deleted all the application support files for sophos, don't bother reinstalling to uninstall. You probably can't Trash one remaining file. Instead do this: Go>Utilities>Activity monitor. The you will find in the list that a sophos activity is running. Select the sophos activity and then choose stop in the top menu of Activity Monitor. Empty your Trash and voila, all gone.
If you have deleted all the application support files for sophos, don't bother reinstalling to uninstall. You probably can't Trash one remaining file. Instead do this: Go>Utilities>Activity monitor. The you will find in the list that a sophos activity is running. Select the sophos activity and then choose stop in the top menu of Activity Monitor. Empty your Trash and voila, all gone.
