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OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« on: August 21, 2014, 11:34:28 PM »
Hi,

I have been running Sophos on my Macs for a while but after a spate of system crashes and lack of support from Sophos decided to uninstall and install Avast.  Trouble is despite removing Sophos and physically deleting any files from the system, Avast still reports that Sophos is still installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2014, 11:41:28 PM »
Problem solved.  Turns out simply uninstallling and rebooting wasn't enough.  Had to trawl through the filesystem, delete all references to sophos and reboot again...

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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2014, 11:57:07 PM »
Next time please post in the MAC section  ;)

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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2014, 12:03:43 AM »
Next time please post in the MAC section <$1alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley__$2" style="padding: 0 3px 0 3px;" />
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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2014, 12:32:23 AM »
Next time please post in the MAC section  ;)
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=5.0

Bob, if you are wondering why you end up with code instead of the emoticons in quoted text;  to remove the code change your > Forum Profile > Look and Layout - and uncheck the 'Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default.' option.
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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2014, 12:36:16 AM »
Next time please post in the MAC section <$1alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley__$2" style="padding: 0 3px 0 3px;" />
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=5.0

Bob, if you are wondering why you end up with code instead of the emoticons in quoted text;  to remove the code change your > Forum Profile > Look and Layout - and uncheck the 'Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default.' option.
If I do that, then I have a problem inserting code to post pictures etc. 

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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2014, 01:08:07 AM »
OT:
Does the image tag not work for inserting images then ?

Code: [Select]
[img][/img]
That should work to display the images saved elsewhere.
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Re: OSX - Problem installing Avast after removing Sophos
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2014, 02:21:51 AM »
This is a test:
[HTML in clipboard you must paste as "Rich formatting" when composing an email or in other applications that accept html]
By making the change, the image is no longer displayed.
We never had this problem before the forum revival.  :'(
I can get around it with a picture by using the

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