Sophos uninstall script

If there is no Sophos installed, the PC will automatically trigger Sophos client installation? I would like a copy of the script as well. I don't have time for sophos's technical support to assist with every one of these cases and I seem to have a lot of them. Site Search User. On-Premise Endpoint. Thread Info. RSS More Cancel.

This discussion has been locked. Scripted Uninstall of Sophos. If anyone has any information that would help us, that would be greatly appreciated. Nice one, we've had users asking why their sohpos still nags them about expiring and such, most of them just ignored the emails we sent out with directions for removal. So now that we haven't used it in ages this will help me clean up the stragglers and slackers.

Spent hours trying to clear Sophos unsuccessfully when this cleaned it up in seconds. Thanks Nick-C. Works beautifully! That's exactly what I need. End users AV is whinging so need to clean uninstall and push it again. Very powerful with GPOs , removed instantly.

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Thank you so much. I had a VM that the cloud console no longer could see. The guide really helped. Strange, I find the machine. But I do not find the hashed value in the file Hi Fred sorry it looks as though their are either 1. Hi Spencer, Sorry I did not generate the hash. I believe I found it in the following forum post at sophos:. Hi Jason, I know it's been a long time since you've published this article, and so far it have been so useful for me. I need your help if you don't mind, because I'm stuck with the same kind of problem but with endpoint At what point do you get the error?

Try running the script in PowerShell ISE, you may get more descriptive error messages so you can track down the exact point the script fails. Just a quick snippet to reset the password without knowing the current value. I've found a few different old passwords used across my sites. I'm trying your script and all i get in the logs is Hostname - No password - Am i missing something very obvious? I don't know about anyone else's Sophos setup, but in ours Tamper Protection stops you from stopping any of those services.

I had to resort to using an SCCM task sequence that restarted in WinPE, mounted the "live" registry, turned off Tamper Protection there, restarted in normal OS and reconfigured the Sophos client to point to the new estate. This no longer appears to work. Would love if someone had an update on removing sophos without being local to the system. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.

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I solved my problem by enabling secure boot on the host. I wish Microsoft came up with a clearer error message for such a trivial config issue. Leos Marek posted an update 21 hours ago. Please ask IT administration questions in the forums. Any other messages are welcome. Receive news updates via email from this site. Toggle navigation. The Sophos Antivirus Endpoint tamper protection feature prevents even administrators from uninstalling the product.

In this post, you will learn how to uninstall Sophos Antivirus with PowerShell. Author Recent Posts. Jason Coltrin.