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Sophos keeps keeps shutting my (Snow Leopard) monitor down - but it doesn't lose power

jerseyjoel

I have a 3-year-old Intel Mac mini running OS X version 10.6.5. I have had 3 "anti-virus" programs running simultaneously on this computer:

•Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac

•MacScan

•AVG LinkScanner for Mac

When all three automatically start at boot-up, my monitor randomly goes dark - sometimes for 10 seconds, sometimes for up to 3 minutes.

Usually, to resolve the issue, I re-boot, only to have the issue recur.

I checked all connections and still have power coming to the monitor.

Turning off each of these three programs - one at a time - it turns out the culprit is Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac.

I was wondering if anyone could explain why. Is it that Sophos doesn't play well with MacScan and AVG LinkScanner? Is Sophos preferable to these other two? If I use Sophos alone, will it offer me more/better protection?

Thank you in advance for your knowledgeable response.

All the best, all the time,

Joel Kellner<>jerseyjoel@gmail.com

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening." 

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    Sophos and MacScan work fine together, so I'd have to guess that the culprit is Sophos combined with AVG LinkScanner (I have not tested this myself).  Either that, or there's some other conflict at issue here.  Have you opened up Console.app and checked your logs for error messages yet?

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    Sophos and MacScan work fine together, so I'd have to guess that the culprit is Sophos combined with AVG LinkScanner (I have not tested this myself).  Either that, or there's some other conflict at issue here.  Have you opened up Console.app and checked your logs for error messages yet?

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