An upgrade to Safeguard 6.00.1 keeps trying to reinstall itself on one of our computers. It appears that the client has been updated and it reports itself as being 6.00.1, but whenever the user reboots the computer, eventually the upgrade gets launched again.
Any ideas on how to stop this?
Hello,
That's very odd, I've never heard of this before - you're not deploying via some kind of logon script or something similar I presume? Has the client fully updated, including the configuration package? What operating system are you using? Can you upgrade to a newer version of SafeGuard, like 6.1 or 7.0? Can you upload a short video via a camera phone or something?
Thanks for getting back to me on this!
No, there is no logon script being used that I can find. I checked it using Autoruns and found nothing that runs at login just to be sure.
I'll have to verify that the configuration file is updated and get back to you.
This is on a Windows Enterprise 64-bit installation. We have not deployed anything newer, so can't go that route.
As far as what it is doing, it runs the install program and has two options to choose from: one says it will stop services and install and the other says it will install and require a reboot. We've tried both options several times, but if it doesn't restart at the next boot up, it will pop up again sometime later in the day.
Thanks again for any assistance that you can provide.
It seems to be occurring mostly on Dell Latitude E6440's, but I believe that there are some Dell desktops doing it as well.
I'm not sure if my machine is getting worse or not, but the installation seems to get triggered by some odd things. It will normally launch the very first time that I open File Explorer, but it frequently, but not always, also launches when I start applications. Yesterday I had two instances where it launched when I selected Save As from two different applications. I would click on Save As and then the installer for Safeguard would come up. I had to cancel the installer before the Save As dialog would actually appear.
I hope this info helps.
Is there anything else that I can try to rectify this issue or is there any more information that you need?
Alas, it is growing to be rather irritating as time goes on.
Thanks!
Hi Rodrigo,
Sorry for the delay in coming back to you.
I suspect there's probably something that's got corrupted along the way, I would suggest this:
Thanks ever so much for getting back to me!
If I go ahead and uninstall Sophos, doesn't it have to go through and decrypt the hard drive? This can take a lot of time, can't it? I'm just wondering about how long it might take so that I can plan to do it when I don't need the computer for a while.
Thanks for checking in on this again.
No resolution as of yet. I was going to reinstall Safeguard to see if that would take care of the issue, but we no longer have access to the version 6.00.1 installation files, so that's not an option anymore.
I don't really have a good time to uninstall everything and then go through a reinstall under version 7, so will just have to live with it for the time being.
I appreciate the support that you've provide thus far though.
Just to bring this to resolution, I thought I'd share the latest information with you.
A couple of days ago, I had to reinstall Microsoft OneDrive and we also got an update to Microsoft Office. Since these two events occurred, I haven't had any further instances of Sophos Safeguard trying to reinstall itself. I can't explain why one or both of the installs fixed the issue with Safeguard, but they did. I have to assume that one or the other reset something in the Windows installer app and cleaned out whatever was left behind by Safeguard.
I can't tell you how nice it is to have my system back to functioning normally! It was getting very tiresome having to cancel out of the install regularly throughout the day.
Just to bring this to resolution, I thought I'd share the latest information with you.
A couple of days ago, I had to reinstall Microsoft OneDrive and we also got an update to Microsoft Office. Since these two events occurred, I haven't had any further instances of Sophos Safeguard trying to reinstall itself. I can't explain why one or both of the installs fixed the issue with Safeguard, but they did. I have to assume that one or the other reset something in the Windows installer app and cleaned out whatever was left behind by Safeguard.
I can't tell you how nice it is to have my system back to functioning normally! It was getting very tiresome having to cancel out of the install regularly throughout the day.
