This article is only intended for Mac administrators who need to remove the program from a lot of Macs. If you need to remove the program from one or two computers see article 120838 for steps using the graphical (and much easier) removal program.
Applies to the following Sophos products and versions SAV for Mac OS X 9.2 and above
All the instructions below are entered in Terminal. To open Terminal search for it in Spotlight.
Example:
Select the instructions based on the version of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X you have installed (article 112457 explains how to check the version):
Note: If installing via Apple Remote Desktop with UNIX commands, the command needs to be altered slightly sudo "./Sophos\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer" --install
sudo "./Sophos\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer" --install
On the Mac endpoint computer:
cd /Users/<yourUsername>/Desktop/
sudo "./Sophos Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer" --install
Please see KB120570 for instructions.
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/opm/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/
sudo ./InstallationDeployer --remove
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/saas/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/opm-sa/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/
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