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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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    Downloaded and installed Sophos for Mac (free home edition) this evening. As you'd expect, all straightforward and no problems. The 'Scan Local Drives' seems to be taking quite a while to complete but I am now using my MacBook quite heavily and TimeMachine-ing about 10GB of new data too - only myself to blame for that one then! 

    I had been using Intego X5 for a couple of years, and in the last month trialled X6 so interesting to compare real-time scan performance and impacts. Of the three X5 used huge amounts of RAM (up to 900MB) with X6 being a big improvement (nearer 100MB). However, by comparison the Sophas AV RAM allocation is TINY by comparison. There seems to be little impact on day-to-day usage (before my TimeMachine & local drive scan started hitting the disk I/O).

    So, based on a few hours usage, it's a big thumbs up and thanks to Sophos. Saved me some money too.

    :1000195
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    Downloaded and installed Sophos for Mac (free home edition) this evening. As you'd expect, all straightforward and no problems. The 'Scan Local Drives' seems to be taking quite a while to complete but I am now using my MacBook quite heavily and TimeMachine-ing about 10GB of new data too - only myself to blame for that one then! 

    I had been using Intego X5 for a couple of years, and in the last month trialled X6 so interesting to compare real-time scan performance and impacts. Of the three X5 used huge amounts of RAM (up to 900MB) with X6 being a big improvement (nearer 100MB). However, by comparison the Sophas AV RAM allocation is TINY by comparison. There seems to be little impact on day-to-day usage (before my TimeMachine & local drive scan started hitting the disk I/O).

    So, based on a few hours usage, it's a big thumbs up and thanks to Sophos. Saved me some money too.

    :1000195
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