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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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    Finished running a custom scan on "Macintosh HD" omitting BOOTCAMP.  Preferences were default so it did scan inside compressed files and archives.   Scan completed normally in about 2 hours and 15 minutes.  It did report 31 issues,  some of which seemed strange, for example, "unrecognized file format" on a couple of dmg files, one of which I tested and it mounted sucessfully.  There were also a few "corrupt file" reports on some zip files.  But it does appear that the major issues that I've reported, at least on my system, have to do with Sophos-AV attempting to scan the BOOTCAMP partition.

    Rand

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    Finished running a custom scan on "Macintosh HD" omitting BOOTCAMP.  Preferences were default so it did scan inside compressed files and archives.   Scan completed normally in about 2 hours and 15 minutes.  It did report 31 issues,  some of which seemed strange, for example, "unrecognized file format" on a couple of dmg files, one of which I tested and it mounted sucessfully.  There were also a few "corrupt file" reports on some zip files.  But it does appear that the major issues that I've reported, at least on my system, have to do with Sophos-AV attempting to scan the BOOTCAMP partition.

    Rand

    :1000190
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