Why do I now have TWO Sophos icons in my MacBook Pro menu bar?

Question

I got a warning box about a threat, and deleted the threat this morning. This afternoon I noticed there are TWO identical Sophos icons in the menu bar- is this a bad thing? :1009052

Haridoss Sreenivasan · Answer

Hi Daniel, 
 This issue has been resolved long back, in case you are still facing this issue, there is a possibility that the problem is with the installer. Maybe the old instance is still there which might be causing the issue. This issue is caused by having redundant configurations for launching the SophosUIServer process upon user login. One is in the login items section of the Users system preference, the other is a Launch Agent defined in /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sophos.uiserver.plist. 
 In my opinion, a launch agent is preferred over a login item when it comes to starting an app at user login. Thus I agree that removing the login item is the right solution to the issue. A reinstall should fix the issue. Please refer to the article How to uninstall Sophos Home from a Mac . Let me know if this helps resolve your query.