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Silent Uninstall on Mac

I've come across the KB explaining how to use the sudo "path to Sophos.app" --remove, but it won't run because tamper protection is turned on. My questions are, can I turn tamper protection off via Terminal, or can I silently run /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Remove Sophos Anti-Virus.app from the Terminal even though the GUI asks for the tamper protection password?

Mac Mini running OS X 10.10, if it helps.

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0 TravK over 10 years ago

I am actually looking for the same thing. I want to uninstall without user interaction, but running the following terminal command as root opens a prompt for uninstalling Sophos instead.
./Library/Sophos\ Anti-Virus/Remove\ Sophos\ Anti-Virus.app/Contents/MacOS/Remove\ Sophos\ Anti-Virus
Is there a switch or something to run this silently? Please help. Thanks!
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0 TravK over 10 years ago
This did it for me:
Removal via the Terminal - v9.2+ installation managed by Enterprise Console
Open Terminal and run the following command:
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/opm/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/
Run the following command:
sudo ./InstallationDeployer --remove
Found here: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/14179.aspx
Sorry to answer my own question, but just in case someone else runs across it.
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0 jak over 10 years ago

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/120856.aspx
might also help for the future.
Regards,
Jak
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