Uninstall Sophos in MAC without tamper protection password

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In this case the scenario is one of the mac machines have Sophos agent and its don't have an tamper protection password.
we are planning to deploy Sophos agent (A new tenant) but it showing the Sophos agent already exist.

Help me to remove the Sophos agent without tamper password to deploy newer one (or) to change the tenant of Sophos central without removing of Sophos agent.

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[edited by: Gladys at 3:44 PM (GMT -7) on 30 Mar 2023]

Gladys · Accepted Answer

Hi Anishkumar C , 
 Thank you for reaching out to our Community Forum. Please follow the following steps to uninstall the Sophos Endpoint on Mac while the Tamper Protection is turned on. 
 Open terminal 'command + spacebar' search for "terminal" 
 1. vi kill_sophos 2. Copy the text below, right-click on the terminal window and select 'Paste': #!/bin/bash sudo rm -R /Library/Sophos\ Anti-Virus/ sudo rm -R /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/ sudo rm -R /Library/Preferences/com.sophos.* sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sophos.* sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.sophos.* sudo rm -R /Library/Extensions/Sophos* sudo rm -R /Library/Caches/com.sophos.* 3. Press 'Esc' on your keyboard 4. Enter ' :wq' and press return ( Colon W Q Enter) 5. sudo chmod +x kill_sophos 6. Enter the local mac password 7. Run the script by entering below on the terminal ./kill_sophos 8. Enter the password and watch everything die 9. Open Finder and go to 'Applications' 10. Click Remove Sophos Endpoint 11. It&rsquo;ll then let you remove Sophos Endpoint without the tamper protection password. 
 Let me know how it goes. Thank you.

Uninstall Sophos in MAC without tamper protection password

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