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Anti-Virus for Mac makes computer hang and run very slowly

Am running Snow Leopard on an old iMac.  Since installation of AntiVirus there have been numous periods where my Mac has run very, very slowly or hung.  Checking the Activity Monitor showed Sophos absorbing most of the cycles, and when Sophos was disabled things speeded back up to normal.  How to deal with this?

-Latigo-

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  • Immediately underneath Sophos Anti-Viruss in your /Applications folder, you should have had Sophos Remove.  If you didn't, re-run the installer, and the app will be created.

    If you actually had the enterprise version installed and not the home edition, the uninstaller will be in /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/.

    However, to stop your computer from running slowly, all you likely needed to do was disable archive scanning in the on-access component.  Barring that, you could disable on-access altogether, and only use scheduled scans or folder actions to trigger scans.

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  • Immediately underneath Sophos Anti-Viruss in your /Applications folder, you should have had Sophos Remove.  If you didn't, re-run the installer, and the app will be created.

    If you actually had the enterprise version installed and not the home edition, the uninstaller will be in /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/.

    However, to stop your computer from running slowly, all you likely needed to do was disable archive scanning in the on-access component.  Barring that, you could disable on-access altogether, and only use scheduled scans or folder actions to trigger scans.

    :1008137
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