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uninstall an old antivirus ( kaspersky ) when installing SOPHOS endpoint is it possible ?

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SOPHOS endpoint doesn't show me like the other solutions to unistall an existing antivirus ( kaspersky for example ) . is it normal ? 



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    Sophos has the CRT - Competitor Removal Tool, which runs when SAV installs and that logs to avremove.log.  This is in the temp directory of the installing user, i.e. %temp%.

    It depends what version of Kaspersky is installed if it can be removed.

    If you want to test it.  You can copy the crt folder from: C:\ProgramData\Sophos\AutoUpdate\Cache\decoded\savxp\

    The help shows:

    AVRemove.exe --help
    Sophos Anti-Virus software detector - Version 2.19.0.142
    Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Sophos Limited. All rights reserved.
    Usage: AVRemove.exe [options]

    Options:
    --version show program's version number and exit
    -h, --help show this help message and exit
    -d, --detectOnly Only detect products
    -f, --firewalls Include firewalls and product suites in removal
    -l, --listproducts Display the list of competitive products we know to
    check for.
    -t, --trace Turns on trace logging.

    So you could run:

    AVRemove.exe -t -d

    To log all the keys it checks as logged to %temp%\avermove.log

    In \crt\data.zip is ProductCatalog.xml which contains all the keys checked for.

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    Sophos has the CRT - Competitor Removal Tool, which runs when SAV installs and that logs to avremove.log.  This is in the temp directory of the installing user, i.e. %temp%.

    It depends what version of Kaspersky is installed if it can be removed.

    If you want to test it.  You can copy the crt folder from: C:\ProgramData\Sophos\AutoUpdate\Cache\decoded\savxp\

    The help shows:

    AVRemove.exe --help
    Sophos Anti-Virus software detector - Version 2.19.0.142
    Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Sophos Limited. All rights reserved.
    Usage: AVRemove.exe [options]

    Options:
    --version show program's version number and exit
    -h, --help show this help message and exit
    -d, --detectOnly Only detect products
    -f, --firewalls Include firewalls and product suites in removal
    -l, --listproducts Display the list of competitive products we know to
    check for.
    -t, --trace Turns on trace logging.

    So you could run:

    AVRemove.exe -t -d

    To log all the keys it checks as logged to %temp%\avermove.log

    In \crt\data.zip is ProductCatalog.xml which contains all the keys checked for.

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