Stop Sophos services

  1. Ensure Sophos Enterprise Console is closed.
  2. Stop the endpoint communication services. To do this:
    1. Open a command prompt window.
    2. Type the following commands:
      net stop "Sophos Message Router" 
      net stop "Sophos Patch Endpoint Communicator"
      net stop "Sophos Certification Manager"
  3. Stop the data processing and front end services. To stop the services, type the following commands in the command prompt window:
    net stop "Sophos Patch Server Communicator"
    net stop "Sophos Management Host" 
    net stop "Sophos Patch Endpoint Orchestrator" 
    net stop "Sophos Update Manager"

You have finished stopping Sophos services.