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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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    My machine hangs during manual scanning.  Everything becomes unresponsive with the spinning color wheel, every window including those of the finder, sophos, and whatever other programs I might be running at the time.  The force quit window will not open when I press Command-Option-Escape.  I have to reset using the power button each time this happens.

    This issue does NOT happen when only scanning the Mac OS X partition.

    I only have issues when scanning the Windows partition.  It is NTFS, with Windows 7 32bit Ultimate.  For this partition, it does not matter whether I have compressed file scanning turned on or not, it freezes regardless.

    I know annother Mac user that does NOT have this freezing issue with Sophos occur at all, scanning either partition (he also has Windows 7 installed using bootcamp) regardless of whether compressed file scanning is on.  This leads me to believe that a particular file is causing this hang.

    Later on I will try to run the scan of the partition using the command line scanner, sweep, and I will try to determine the particular file that it hangs on.

    I will post results in this topic when I have them.

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    My machine hangs during manual scanning.  Everything becomes unresponsive with the spinning color wheel, every window including those of the finder, sophos, and whatever other programs I might be running at the time.  The force quit window will not open when I press Command-Option-Escape.  I have to reset using the power button each time this happens.

    This issue does NOT happen when only scanning the Mac OS X partition.

    I only have issues when scanning the Windows partition.  It is NTFS, with Windows 7 32bit Ultimate.  For this partition, it does not matter whether I have compressed file scanning turned on or not, it freezes regardless.

    I know annother Mac user that does NOT have this freezing issue with Sophos occur at all, scanning either partition (he also has Windows 7 installed using bootcamp) regardless of whether compressed file scanning is on.  This leads me to believe that a particular file is causing this hang.

    Later on I will try to run the scan of the partition using the command line scanner, sweep, and I will try to determine the particular file that it hangs on.

    I will post results in this topic when I have them.

    :1000228
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