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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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    While we're waiting for Marf, I have annother suggestion.

    Since the issue seems like it may or may not be related to scanning compressed files, could you try scan with the command prompt explicitly asking to scan compressed files?

    sweep -archive /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -dn>>/Users/brianarmour/Desktop/SweepLogCompressed.txt

    OR

    sweep -archive /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -dn>>/Users/Brian/Desktop/SweepLogCompressed.txt

    The "-archive" option tells it to scan all supported archives.

    I put a different name for the log file so it doesn't overwrite the old one, so on your desktop you should have SweepLog.txt and SweepLogCompressed.txt after you run these.

    Please choose whatever one worked for you last time in regards to the username.

    Remember if it hangs, don't depend on the log file, make note of the name of the file and especially the extension.

    Thanks!

    Ian

    :1000255
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    While we're waiting for Marf, I have annother suggestion.

    Since the issue seems like it may or may not be related to scanning compressed files, could you try scan with the command prompt explicitly asking to scan compressed files?

    sweep -archive /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -dn>>/Users/brianarmour/Desktop/SweepLogCompressed.txt

    OR

    sweep -archive /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -dn>>/Users/Brian/Desktop/SweepLogCompressed.txt

    The "-archive" option tells it to scan all supported archives.

    I put a different name for the log file so it doesn't overwrite the old one, so on your desktop you should have SweepLog.txt and SweepLogCompressed.txt after you run these.

    Please choose whatever one worked for you last time in regards to the username.

    Remember if it hangs, don't depend on the log file, make note of the name of the file and especially the extension.

    Thanks!

    Ian

    :1000255
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