Norton, McAfee) take an appauling toll on the performance of your PC, and come with a yearly renewal “tax” to boot. They may be effective, but in my view the “cure” is almost as bad as the “disease”. The most common ones often come bundled with new PC’s. There is an abundance of security solutions out there. If you’re not sure what you’re doing it’s better to stop and ask than to mess up your system even more. Some requires a little bit more technical competence. Thank you.Some of the advice provided is very easy to follow. Hope that's of use to anyone else who encounters the same problem. Sophos appears to be gone and I have control over my computer again. Ran CCleaner as Administrator and cleaned out registry again.īooted to Linux and opened the Windows partition.Ĭhanged permissions of the remaining files and deleted them (Guess I could have done it all in Linux in one step ?) Opened regedit, searched for 'Sophos' and deleted all entries I could find.

Closed services.msc and then re-opened and set all Sophos services from manual to 'disabled' Opened services.msc and set all Sophos services to 'manual' (one remained unchangeable). Some files could not be accessed due to permissions/ownership

(I did not find anything 'obvious' in AppData)Ĭhanged permissions/ownership whenever and wherever required. Windows 10 on Acer laptop i5 with 8GB RAM, dual boot (Linux Ubuntu and Windows 10)ĭeleted all the Sophos folders and files I could find. Would you be kind enough to let know a better/cleaner way? My solution is not elegant and is most likely the worst way to go about fixing the problem. Just an average person who accidentally installed this Sophos product and I don't want it. **PLEASE NOTE: I am not an IT professional.

Perhaps I've been talking to the wrong people? Regardless, I've put in as much time as I'm able. There appears to be a lack of willingness on the part of Sophos to provide any information on how to remove their Endpoint product.

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