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Uninstall Sophos Antivirus tamper protection lost password

How to uninstall Sophos Antivirus when the Tamper Protection doesn’t let you, and you don’t know the Tamper password.

  1. Stop the Sophos Anti-Virus service if possible. Open services.msc and stop the service.
  2. Open notepad with UAC elevation, run as Administrator.
  3. In notepad open the file “C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Config\machine.xml”
  4. Find the configuration section for TamperProtectionManagement

    <TamperProtectionManagement>
    <settings>
    <password>123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</password><enabled>true</enabled>
    </settings>
    </TamperProtectionManagement>

  5. Change the password string (123456789ABCD… above is just an example, yours will be different.) to the new value: E8F97FBA9104D1EA5047948E6DFB67FACD9F5B73
  6. Start Sophos Antivirus or restart the computer.
  7. Disable tamper protection using the new password: “password” (without the quotes).
  8. Uninstall Sophos Antivirus.
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Uninstall Trend Micro Officescan without password

Uninstall Trendmicro officescan without knowing the password

Open Ofcscan.ini inside C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan Client
Change the value of the Uninstall_Pwd to !CRYPT!5237C1A1888FAFC830342D0AB1AD8410C995F3E7C1FBB9FE857C7B1FEBE9F84A93A1B9CEF52810DBA9649332838
Change the value of the Unload_Pwd to !CRYPT!5237C1A1888FAFC830342D0AB1AD8410C995F3E7C1FBB9FE857C7B1FEBE9F84A93A1B9CEF52810DBA9649332838
To Unload or uninstall the OfficeScan use novrius as the password.

thanks to: bpursley

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McAfee EPO agent uninstall

Hoe de McAfee EPO agent uninstalleren ?
Ga naar ‘Start – Uitvoeren’ tik in ‘CMD’ (zonder quotes) en druk op OK.
In het zwarte kader tik je na de cursor:

cd “c:\Program Files\Network Associates\Common Framework\”

Of indien niet succesvol probeer deze,

cd “c:\Program Files\McAfee\Common Framework\”

Tik daarna:

frminst /remove=agent