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Intercheck maxes out my CPUs

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Intercheck is using 98% of my %CPU for long periods of time. If I kill it, it comes back and climbs to 90%. Is there a way to fix this?

TIA, 

Bill

Sophos Anti-Virus

7.3.0.C

Threat detection engine: 3.20.2

Threat data: 4.66

Release date: June 6, 2011

Protects against 2623390 threats

OS 10.6.8

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    telecat wrote:

    Why would intercheck be unpacking and scanning an archive if I didn't tell it to do so? 


    That depends on your definition of "tell it to do so" -- archive scanning is enabled by default.  This means that any time you do an on-demand scan on a folder that contains an archive, the archive will be unpacked and its contents scanned.  It also means that any time an archive file (which includes .jar files. .docx files, .dmg files and sparse image-based time machine backups among others) is accessed, the contents will be extracted and examined before the operation is allowed to complete.

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    telecat wrote:

    Why would intercheck be unpacking and scanning an archive if I didn't tell it to do so? 


    That depends on your definition of "tell it to do so" -- archive scanning is enabled by default.  This means that any time you do an on-demand scan on a folder that contains an archive, the archive will be unpacked and its contents scanned.  It also means that any time an archive file (which includes .jar files. .docx files, .dmg files and sparse image-based time machine backups among others) is accessed, the contents will be extracted and examined before the operation is allowed to complete.

    :1007267
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