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Can't uninstall endpoint agent!

Disabled Tamper Protection and trying to uninstall as admin.  I even disabled all the Sophos services.  When I try to uninstall it says it can't because it's updating, but how can it update if all the services are stopped!?

Even ran the batch file from here https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/122126 and rebooted but it says the same thing!  WTH!!!



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  • I would suggest:

    Open Task Manager and check that the process SophosUpdate.exe isn't running.  It will be running as System and if so kill it.

    Open Regedit, navigate to:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Sophos\AutoUpdate\UpdateStatus

    Delete the following values if they exist:

    UpdateStartedTime
    IsUpdating
    IsInstalling

    Try an uninstall.

    Regards,

    Jak

  • Incredible, I never knew this. Had a laptop with Sophos Central hung on updating no matter what. The service was not running, but deleting those 3 keys allowed me to uninstall right away (Tamper protection was already off from Central--and user has Sophos Administrators group rights of course)

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  • Incredible, I never knew this. Had a laptop with Sophos Central hung on updating no matter what. The service was not running, but deleting those 3 keys allowed me to uninstall right away (Tamper protection was already off from Central--and user has Sophos Administrators group rights of course)

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