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Sophos Uninstall Issue

Good Morning

At my workplace we use Sophos Endpoint Security and Control v9.5 and I'm having an issue on one of the machines its installed on I wonder if anyone can suggest anything to assist me?

The PC in question had Sophos installed (via a network share) but upon first install when it does its initial update (the 3 stage update) the update window would close once it got to 'Installing Package 1 of..

Now I assumed that I had mistyped the admin password/ID so I went to uninstall it.  However when I try and uninstall Sophos it asks for a 'Sophos Anti-Virus.msi' file.  I browsed to this file on the network server but the uninstaller would not accept this MSI (I've seen a few threads on Google with this issue with no successful resolutions).

I have tried reinstalling Sophos again (same thing happened) and I've tried absolutely everything to remove Sophos, I've manually cleared the registry, manually deleted the files, logged onto safemode to try and remove it I even reinstalled the Windows Installer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5a58b56f-60b6-4412-95b9-54d056d6f9f4&displaylang=en_) as it was suggested as a way to get round this issue on the net.  Nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Neal

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  • Hi

    From the AUpdate...log we receive this error:

    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Execute: Creating thread to install product SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Run: Installing Product SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): ALUpdate(Action.Execute): SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Run: Preparing...
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): CIDUpdateLocation::Prepare... entered
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): CheckManifest completed successfully
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): SetupAction::Run: Prepare succeeded
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): SetupAction::Execute: Could not create instance of IProductSetup2. Reverting to IProductSetup
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:22:13): ALUpdate(Install.Failure): SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:22:13): SetupAction::Execute: Thread to install SAVXP returns 0

    Any ideas ?

    Degs

    :9233
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  • Hi

    From the AUpdate...log we receive this error:

    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Execute: Creating thread to install product SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Run: Installing Product SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): ALUpdate(Action.Execute): SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): SetupAction::Run: Preparing...
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:45): CIDUpdateLocation::Prepare... entered
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): CheckManifest completed successfully
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): SetupAction::Run: Prepare succeeded
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:20:47): SetupAction::Execute: Could not create instance of IProductSetup2. Reverting to IProductSetup
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:22:13): ALUpdate(Install.Failure): SAVXP
    Trace(2011-Feb-17 13:22:13): SetupAction::Execute: Thread to install SAVXP returns 0

    Any ideas ?

    Degs

    :9233
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