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System becomes unresponsive

I tried the AV out and found it had negative effects on my system. I have a Macbook Pro 3,1 with a 2.4ghz processor, 4gb of ram and a 500gb hd running 10.6.4. 

I noticed that start ups had become longer and icons on my desktop weren't immediately there, instead there were placeholder dashed rectangles. 

I attempted 2 separate scans. Both resulted about the same. My MBP became unresponsive, the items remaining count stopped and the CPU temperature dropped from an elevated working temp to a lower idle temp. I wasn't able to check through the activity monitor due to the unresponsiveness. Both times I had to press and hold the power button to shut down because clicking restart didnt respond.

Anyone else having this problem?

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  • I installed the Sophos AV for Mac yesterday afternoon and started a full system scan.  It identified roughly 3,700,000 files to scan.  That was over 15 hours ago and it still has 3,142,340 files left to scan.  At this rate it will take several days to complete the scan.  Why is it so slow?  How can I speed it up? 

    I have a MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of Memory, Mac OS 10.6.4

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  • I installed the Sophos AV for Mac yesterday afternoon and started a full system scan.  It identified roughly 3,700,000 files to scan.  That was over 15 hours ago and it still has 3,142,340 files left to scan.  At this rate it will take several days to complete the scan.  Why is it so slow?  How can I speed it up? 

    I have a MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of Memory, Mac OS 10.6.4

    :1000153
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