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System becomes unresponsive

Chogidog

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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     installed sophos yesterday but it brings my newer-ish MBP w/ 4g to it's knees. if you're just browsing the web and reading email you probably won't notice, but if you stress your system in any way, forget it. file system access times and memory usage went way up...that's what happen with free products like this..... everything i've read says the only reason to have antivirus software on your mac is to avoid passing on email-based viruses to PC users. an alternative to this is software called "little snitch" or "intego virusbarrier"  that monitors and reports all network usage.:manindifferent:

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     installed sophos yesterday but it brings my newer-ish MBP w/ 4g to it's knees. if you're just browsing the web and reading email you probably won't notice, but if you stress your system in any way, forget it. file system access times and memory usage went way up...that's what happen with free products like this..... everything i've read says the only reason to have antivirus software on your mac is to avoid passing on email-based viruses to PC users. an alternative to this is software called "little snitch" or "intego virusbarrier"  that monitors and reports all network usage.:manindifferent:

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