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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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    Hello Rebel,

    the link - like the one for 8.0 and the autoupdate location as well - doesn't point to just one site but it's a name which resolves to various hosts on a distribution network depending on your location. Larger downloads are not rolled out everywhere at the same time so for a short period you'll get e.g. 7.3.9C in some parts of the world and 7.3.10C in others. There's no need to "hunt" for the latest version as AutoUpdate will - err - automatically update to the latest version as soon as it becomes available in your part of the world. Likely it has already done so. 

    Christian

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    Hello Rebel,

    the link - like the one for 8.0 and the autoupdate location as well - doesn't point to just one site but it's a name which resolves to various hosts on a distribution network depending on your location. Larger downloads are not rolled out everywhere at the same time so for a short period you'll get e.g. 7.3.9C in some parts of the world and 7.3.10C in others. There's no need to "hunt" for the latest version as AutoUpdate will - err - automatically update to the latest version as soon as it becomes available in your part of the world. Likely it has already done so. 

    Christian

    :1006137
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