solved it indeed.. might be an easier way than this, though: in windows: run > mmc.exe > hit ctrl-m, choose "Local users and ..." and click add>, click local machine> okay > ok. in the left menu, click at groups.. there your list is [;)] add your user to the "sophos administrators" group, and done.. now I could stop the services(couldn't even do that before adding my own account to the soophos admin group)
Hi Bob, on my xp vm (which I was running with administrative privileges) local administrator account and my account were automatically added to the SophosAdministrator user group. You probably will have to add yours manually if it didn't get added but the procedure works fine.
This makes perfect sense since an administrator (root) will have full read/write access to his own box even if the app somehow makes it look that such right does not exist. But in a domain setup, most users don't have full administrative rights to their machines so an uninstall will fail.
Another thing that Sophos needs credit for is that the uninstall also removes the SophosAdministrator user group; hence cleaning up after itself[;)]
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Without knowing the tamper protection password, one could also simply stop all SOPHOS services and then uninstall in following order: Anti-Virus (reboot!), MCS, Update.
