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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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    So, all of a sudden after a whole bunch of repititions, I am no longer able to make my machine hang.

    Before it stopped crashing, I had inconsistent results as to what file type was causing the freezes / panics.

    On two occasions where I was able to find out which file it stopped on, these were the files it stopped on:

    SourceHTMLTokenizer.re2js

    C:\Program Files/iTunes/iTunes.Resources/fr.lproj/Localizable.strings

    I have the full file path for the second file, because on that scan I used the -ns option.

    Annother thing I did notice when it did stop freezing was that almost every time, right before it froze, the menu bar icon indicated sophos was trying to update at the time, this leads me to believe that there may be an issue with auto update interfering with the local scan working correctly.

    I have stopped testing this at this point in time.  If I happen to run into more problems through normal use, I will post here.

    Apart from these minor temporary bugs, thanks, Sophos for making a decent free antivirus available for the mac, it couldn't have come at a better time.

    :1000263
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    So, all of a sudden after a whole bunch of repititions, I am no longer able to make my machine hang.

    Before it stopped crashing, I had inconsistent results as to what file type was causing the freezes / panics.

    On two occasions where I was able to find out which file it stopped on, these were the files it stopped on:

    SourceHTMLTokenizer.re2js

    C:\Program Files/iTunes/iTunes.Resources/fr.lproj/Localizable.strings

    I have the full file path for the second file, because on that scan I used the -ns option.

    Annother thing I did notice when it did stop freezing was that almost every time, right before it froze, the menu bar icon indicated sophos was trying to update at the time, this leads me to believe that there may be an issue with auto update interfering with the local scan working correctly.

    I have stopped testing this at this point in time.  If I happen to run into more problems through normal use, I will post here.

    Apart from these minor temporary bugs, thanks, Sophos for making a decent free antivirus available for the mac, it couldn't have come at a better time.

    :1000263
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