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Sophos 8.0.1c stalled?

pkcyll

Looking at older threads seems to indicate that Sophos has a history of stalls.

I launched a scan about 8 hours ago. Maybe 100,000 files have been scanned but the program has been stalled with 1,450,354 files remaining for most of that time.

Reading the older threads, I disabled compressed and archive scanning and the program is not scanning networked volumes. Sophos is taking about 2-3% CPU. Nothing is happening on my 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (4 GB RAM) running 10.7.3.

I had Sophos scan my mac mini this morning and while the scamn was not a speed demon, it did finish the scan within 2 hours.

Ah... down 1,450,353 files to scan. At this rate, .... 

Any clues as to why Sophos is so slow? Do I need to stop and restart the program if I made some changes via the Preferences... menu?

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    Thanks for the link, is that some secret hidden directory? I can't find that path on the site.

    Not sure if I want to install 7.3, wait for another update, try ClamXav or keep running unprotected. I'd been planning to install anti-virus anyway, but the recent Java virus motivated me to git 'er done, and now I'm wasting time on the anti-virus and having other trouble that I didn't have before.

    I seem to be having a few slowdowns that I didn't have before installing Sophos yesterday; I even had problems opening video files with VLC last night, and it finally froze my system and I had to to a manual reboot. Thought maybe Sophos had been tring to scan the file as I opened it. After a reboot, though, VLC worked fine again. Might have been just a system error or VLC issue, but strange that it happened shortly after installing Sophos.

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    Thanks for the link, is that some secret hidden directory? I can't find that path on the site.

    Not sure if I want to install 7.3, wait for another update, try ClamXav or keep running unprotected. I'd been planning to install anti-virus anyway, but the recent Java virus motivated me to git 'er done, and now I'm wasting time on the anti-virus and having other trouble that I didn't have before.

    I seem to be having a few slowdowns that I didn't have before installing Sophos yesterday; I even had problems opening video files with VLC last night, and it finally froze my system and I had to to a manual reboot. Thought maybe Sophos had been tring to scan the file as I opened it. After a reboot, though, VLC worked fine again. Might have been just a system error or VLC issue, but strange that it happened shortly after installing Sophos.

    :1006075
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