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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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    How does one use this workaround if neither BootCamp nor Parallels Desktop / VMWare Fusion have never been anywhere near one's Macintosh?

    This is a brand new install of Mac OS 10.6, iWork and iLife only (yes, no third party anything installed) on a freshly formatted drive with two partitions. My system locks up, stop scanning, and otherwise misbehaves when I scan a large folder (by size) or entire external drive hooked up via USB. If I keep it to less than 600 MB, all is well. It seems if I go beyond that, the system locks up, and Sophos will not respond. 

    I also note my confusion : namely, I had recently been a administrator of Sophos' enterprise Mac Anti-virus and the Mac client software was golden compared to this 'free' version. I routinely scanned drives that were hundreds of gigabytes without any fuss at all. Is this a completely different version? If so, why?

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    How does one use this workaround if neither BootCamp nor Parallels Desktop / VMWare Fusion have never been anywhere near one's Macintosh?

    This is a brand new install of Mac OS 10.6, iWork and iLife only (yes, no third party anything installed) on a freshly formatted drive with two partitions. My system locks up, stop scanning, and otherwise misbehaves when I scan a large folder (by size) or entire external drive hooked up via USB. If I keep it to less than 600 MB, all is well. It seems if I go beyond that, the system locks up, and Sophos will not respond. 

    I also note my confusion : namely, I had recently been a administrator of Sophos' enterprise Mac Anti-virus and the Mac client software was golden compared to this 'free' version. I routinely scanned drives that were hundreds of gigabytes without any fuss at all. Is this a completely different version? If so, why?

    :1000499
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