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Sophos Home Edition for Mac fails removal and fails new install

I'm running the latest edition of Mac OS X, Yosemite 10.10.3 and I can't remove SAV from my computer nor can I install a new version.  I get failure messages on both accounts.  I can't even tell what version of SAV I'm running in the "About" screen as it says About Panel Version UNKNOWN, although I think it is the latest version 9.  I also think I originally created this problem by trying to remove SAV by dragging it to trash as I didn't see the Remove Sophos Anti-Virus application in my Applications.  I've tried everything:  Rebooting, repairing disk permissions, running CleanMyMac versions 2 and 3 (both of which hung up on trying to remove SAV), running AppCleaner, downloading a new removal tool from the Sophos website.  Nothing works.  In trying to install McAfee I get an incompatible software message which I think is because it sees SAV.  Even if I trash the program and the removal tool McAfee won't install with the same error message.

Here's what I got from the installer log in the Console:

Marker - Apr 19, 2015, 8:33:22 AM
Apr 19 08:33:47 CWKlima.local Sophos Installer[647]: [SMEInstallController.m:250] Remove operation cannot run from this location (/Library/Application Support/Sophos/temp_647/Installer.app)
it must be run from the receipt location (/Library/Application Support/Sophos/he/Installer.app)
Apr 19 08:37:07 CWKlima.local Sophos Installer[671]: [SMEInstallController.m:250] Remove operation cannot run from this location (/Library/Application Support/Sophos/temp_671/Installer.app)
it must be run from the receipt location (/Library/Application Support/Sophos/he/Installer.app)

I then tried to add a folder in the Application Support Library as this says and copy the uninstaller there, but couldn't create the New Folder there.

I'm stuck!

Can someone help?

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  • Try to remove the product manually. Basically, remove everything in the following list:

    /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus

    /Library/LaunchDaemos/com.sophos.*

    /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sophos.*

    /Library/Preferences/com.sophos.*

    /Library/Logs/Sophos Anti-Virus.log

    /Applications/Sophos Anti-Virus.app

    /Applications/Sophos Remove.app

    /var/db/receipts/com.sophos.*

    You'll need administrative rights to remove most of those files. Then reboot, to ensure everything is cleared from memory too. Then run through the list again, to ensure you got everything.

    Warning: Be cautious when deleting things in some of those directories. Not everything in there is related to our software - our files contain the name "Sophos".

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  • Try to remove the product manually. Basically, remove everything in the following list:

    /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus

    /Library/LaunchDaemos/com.sophos.*

    /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sophos.*

    /Library/Preferences/com.sophos.*

    /Library/Logs/Sophos Anti-Virus.log

    /Applications/Sophos Anti-Virus.app

    /Applications/Sophos Remove.app

    /var/db/receipts/com.sophos.*

    You'll need administrative rights to remove most of those files. Then reboot, to ensure everything is cleared from memory too. Then run through the list again, to ensure you got everything.

    Warning: Be cautious when deleting things in some of those directories. Not everything in there is related to our software - our files contain the name "Sophos".

    :1020702

     - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Communities Moderator, SOPHOS
    Knowledge Base  |  @SophosSupport  |  Video tutorials
    Remember to like a post.  If a post (on a question thread) solves your question use the 'This helped me' link.

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