Can't install or uninstall

Bob...

VICTORY.

I began to look at things a bit differently, trying to approach the problem more in terms of processes than sophos- or savos-specific investigative work.

Although I realize there is obviously a problem within the booting process, & lauchd thinks SophosUIServer still exists, I had to accept, finally, that it was simply an anomaly (rare if not impossible in the work of coding, no?), or buried within something so well-masked I couldn't recognize it.

I began working more with Console & Activity Monitor.

I could see processes such as Page Reporter, but eliminating them proved futile.

I managed to deviate my Preferences in Security & Privacy, so that the Pop-up Problem Page was no longer seeking to Report Problem to Apple...so I knew I was onto something.

I returned to CrashReporter, which you remember had the only Sophos .plist which I couldn't erase.

Still, it has continued to seem to me that CrashReporter was the culprit, or if not the culprit then the source of a possible resoultion.

I had researched & read of adjusting my CrashReporter Preference to Server, which would cancel out the Pop-up box, but CrashReporter would continue, indefinitely evidently, writing the perpetual crashes.

It seemed a bit of a cheat solution, but at least the Pop-up would vanish & the computer would cease locking-up.

& Then I found it.

It was a Terminal command, which I was glad of, as this is my first experience with code & I wanted to succeed using it.

The command is: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

Shut it completely down.

No more friggin' box.

& So, another maddening chapter comes to a close.

Thanks for your help, your advice.

Hang in there!

Take care...

                          ~Mark33

Bob...

VICTORY.

I began to look at things a bit differently, trying to approach the problem more in terms of processes than sophos- or savos-specific investigative work.

Although I realize there is obviously a problem within the booting process, & lauchd thinks SophosUIServer still exists, I had to accept, finally, that it was simply an anomaly (rare if not impossible in the work of coding, no?), or buried within something so well-masked I couldn't recognize it.

I began working more with Console & Activity Monitor.

I could see processes such as Page Reporter, but eliminating them proved futile.

I managed to deviate my Preferences in Security & Privacy, so that the Pop-up Problem Page was no longer seeking to Report Problem to Apple...so I knew I was onto something.

I returned to CrashReporter, which you remember had the only Sophos .plist which I couldn't erase.

Still, it has continued to seem to me that CrashReporter was the culprit, or if not the culprit then the source of a possible resoultion.

I had researched & read of adjusting my CrashReporter Preference to Server, which would cancel out the Pop-up box, but CrashReporter would continue, indefinitely evidently, writing the perpetual crashes.

It seemed a bit of a cheat solution, but at least the Pop-up would vanish & the computer would cease locking-up.

& Then I found it.

It was a Terminal command, which I was glad of, as this is my first experience with code & I wanted to succeed using it.

The command is: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

Shut it completely down.

No more friggin' box.

& So, another maddening chapter comes to a close.

Thanks for your help, your advice.

Hang in there!

Take care...

                          ~Mark33