Sophos Antivirus is a well respected and popular antivirus app for the Mac. It is available as both a free and paid-for app, and is generally accepted to be good at detecting viruses on your Mac.
Applies to: Sophos Home Premium and Free (Mac) You encountered the below error message in installing Sophos Home on your Mac computer: The installation failed. The software was not installed successfully. Remove the software and re-install. Cause This issue happens when Sophos Home detects another installation instance of Sophos Home or other Sophos anti-virus products and fails to cleanup its remnants.
Solution There are two ways to solve the issue:. Run the Installer. Double-click on SophosInstall.
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Right-click on Sophos Installer then select Show Package Contents. Go to Contents MacOS Installer. Double-click on Installer to run it. If you still receive the same installation error message, follow the succeeding solutions below.