unable to remove sophos antivirus mac terminal

#Unable to remove sophos antivirus mac terminal install
#Unable to remove sophos antivirus mac terminal update

In the Terminal window, type ' csrutil disable' (without the quotes) and press Enter.ĥ. In the OSX Utilities application, select the 'Utilities -> Terminal' menu item.ģ. Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting your computer and holding down Command+R until the Apple logo appears on your screen.Ģ.

Enabling and disabling System Integrity Protection requires booting into recovery mode.ġ. To fix this you will need to disable System Integrity Protection, delete the sweep executable and its man page and then re-enable System Integrity Protection. It appears that your Mac was upgraded to El Capitan with a version prior to 9.4.

#Unable to remove sophos antivirus mac terminal update

In that update the sweep utility and its man page were moved from /usr/bin/sweep and / usr/share/man/man1/sweep.1 to /usr/local/bin/sweep and /usr/local/share/man/man1/sweep.1 Sophos Anti-Virus for Macintosh Home Edition was updated to version 9.4 before El Capitan was released to accommodate the System Integrity Protection (AKA rootless) feature of El Capitan which does not allow non-Apple files in /usr/bin.

#Unable to remove sophos antivirus mac terminal install

My ultimate goal is to install the latest version of Sophos, which I can't do. I probably should have removed Sophos prior to upgrading, but it's a bit late for that now. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 '“sweep” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it.' UserInfo=ĭec 20 18:07:54 Mario Sophos Installer: '' success: NOĭec 20 18:07:54 Mario Sophos Installer: 'forceRemove' success: NOĪny ideas? I've tried dropping down to Single-user mode and running the removal process from the command line to no avail. Here is my install.log from Console.app:ĭec 20 18:07:53 Mario Sophos Installer: Force removing (null) version (null)ĭec 20 18:07:53 Mario Sophos Installer: The detected 'damaged-installation' product will be force removed.ĭec 20 18:07:53 Mario Sophos Installer: Service Manager failed while stopping managed daemons (ĭec 20 18:07:54 Mario Sophos Installer: '' success: YESĭec 20 18:07:54 Mario Sophos Installer: Unable to remove /usr/bin/sweep. When trying to remove Sophos from my mac, something called 'usr/bin/sweep' is preventing the removal process from completing sucessfully.