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Java Apps Start Up Sloooooowwwwwww

Vyper007

Hi All,

OK since the FlashBack malware scare I decided maybe nows the time to consider an Anti Virus solution, after a bit of research I decided to give Sophos a try, so far its been great except when attempting to start java based apps, for instance I run CrashPlan an online backup solution and the application is heavily dependent on java, when I attempt to start the app instantly the intercheck proccess uses 100% of my CPU and it literally takes ages for CrashPlan to start up, its not the only application this happens with, for instance I also have a Netgear Readynas and the Raidiator software which lets you administer it is also java based and takes ages to start up, once again intercheck proccess takes literally 100% of my CPU and it seems to take an enternity to start these apps.

Now is this just me or is anyone else having these difficulties, I've tried Sophos on two seperarate machines now my home mac and my laptop (MacBook) and this happens on both machines for me.

Both machines are running Mac OSX 10.7.3 and running the very latest version of Sophos, so any ideas ?, I've even tried adding the CrashPlan app to my exclusions list under my on access scanner setting and it made absolutly no difference. Thoughts ?

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    You can whitelist them by adding them to the on-access "exclude" list.  Since some of these are complex apps, it may be the case that excluding the app itself will not fix the problem, as the real issue is that the app is accessing a lot of files from somewhere else on your system.

    The balance between being fully protected against Java threats (having archive scanning enabled) and having decent performance launching Java applications will always result in either reduced protection or reduced launch speed.

    iSedora's problem is likely due to it launching an internal torrent server or other media service that accesses a large number of large files repeatedly.  This normally wouldn't be an issue, as Sophos caches the results of the first scan, but since media files in transit are never actually the same file on each scan (the contents have often changed slightly), a new scan is performed.  You may want to experiment with excluding your media library from on-access scanning (although leaving it fully excluded isn't recommended, unless you're sure the content is safe -- encoded by you from trusted sources).

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    You can whitelist them by adding them to the on-access "exclude" list.  Since some of these are complex apps, it may be the case that excluding the app itself will not fix the problem, as the real issue is that the app is accessing a lot of files from somewhere else on your system.

    The balance between being fully protected against Java threats (having archive scanning enabled) and having decent performance launching Java applications will always result in either reduced protection or reduced launch speed.

    iSedora's problem is likely due to it launching an internal torrent server or other media service that accesses a large number of large files repeatedly.  This normally wouldn't be an issue, as Sophos caches the results of the first scan, but since media files in transit are never actually the same file on each scan (the contents have often changed slightly), a new scan is performed.  You may want to experiment with excluding your media library from on-access scanning (although leaving it fully excluded isn't recommended, unless you're sure the content is safe -- encoded by you from trusted sources).

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