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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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    That is very strange...    I used same Christian’’’’s link and checked “About Sophos Anti-Virus” at  the upper black color Sophos’’’’ icon, it showed Version 7.3.10c.  But I think it is OK for ver 7.3.9c.  They (Sophos) should fix ver 8 soon.   

    Anyway, I think Sophos is the best "free" Anti-Virus" program for Mac.  

    Also, you may want to try "Bitdefender Virus Scanner" from  the Apple store as the back up virus scanner.  I think it is a good virus scanner.  So, I use two program because I don't trust the public opnion about "Mac does not get Virus"

    p.s.   I do’’’’t know why my pervious comment showed **bleep** Luck"......  I wanted say “Good Luck”.     :) 

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    That is very strange...    I used same Christian’’’’s link and checked “About Sophos Anti-Virus” at  the upper black color Sophos’’’’ icon, it showed Version 7.3.10c.  But I think it is OK for ver 7.3.9c.  They (Sophos) should fix ver 8 soon.   

    Anyway, I think Sophos is the best "free" Anti-Virus" program for Mac.  

    Also, you may want to try "Bitdefender Virus Scanner" from  the Apple store as the back up virus scanner.  I think it is a good virus scanner.  So, I use two program because I don't trust the public opnion about "Mac does not get Virus"

    p.s.   I do’’’’t know why my pervious comment showed **bleep** Luck"......  I wanted say “Good Luck”.     :) 

    :1006131
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