Remove Sophos But No Tamper Protection Password

Question

Hi,

I would like to remove all traces of Sophos from my Mac, but it keeps prompting me for a Tamper Protection Password. I never set up such a password and do not recall being given one either. All I want is to remove the product from my Mac.

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JoelMcDonald · Answer

So I did a little digging, to change the password follow these steps: 1:open services.msc 2: stop Sophos Anti-Virus 3: open notepass as admin 4: open C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Config\machine.xml 5:Find the below and change xxxxxxxxx to E8F97FBA9104D1EA5047948E6DFB67FACD9F5B73 xxxxxxxxxtrue 6: start Sophos Anti-Virus 7:open sophos and the password will be password YAY 8:question the purpose of this "security feature"