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fan runs all the time

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I recently downloaded sophos and now my fan runs almost all the time.  I've just tried having it scan only every 3 days, but the fan is still running constantly.  I would like to either know a way to stop the fan from running, or would appreciate help in uninstalling sophos

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    Sophos is always scanning... if you haven't made any changes to your on-access scan settings, you shouldn't have to perform the on-demand scan very often -- once to check over your system, and then every once in a blue moon to verify something you've got hasn't been updated to a threat.

    On-Access scanning will protect you at the point where a file can harm your system -- when it's accessed by the system.

    Likely the increased CPU cycles are due to scanning some large archive files in the background.  Sophos usually behaves itself and doesn't use up much CPU power, so you may want to get your hands dirty and check your system logs if you're concerned about the behaviour in general.  If you just want the fan to stop spinning up, don't run on-demand scans.

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    Sophos is always scanning... if you haven't made any changes to your on-access scan settings, you shouldn't have to perform the on-demand scan very often -- once to check over your system, and then every once in a blue moon to verify something you've got hasn't been updated to a threat.

    On-Access scanning will protect you at the point where a file can harm your system -- when it's accessed by the system.

    Likely the increased CPU cycles are due to scanning some large archive files in the background.  Sophos usually behaves itself and doesn't use up much CPU power, so you may want to get your hands dirty and check your system logs if you're concerned about the behaviour in general.  If you just want the fan to stop spinning up, don't run on-demand scans.

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