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You do not need to uninstall Sophos Antivirus, the CrowdStirke Falcon installer will uninstall Sophos Antivirus.
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received a notification saying I do not have virus protection during the CrowdStrike Falcon installation, do I need to worry?
No, Crowdstrike Falcon is a cloud-based product while Sophos is locally installed, there may be a brief lag time where the Windows system thinks that there is no antivirus installed, prompting the Windows Security Center notification. Once CrowdStrike Flacon is fully installed and configured, those will go away.
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