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problems scanning USB drive/large folders - Mac OS X 10.6.x with iWork, iLife, multiple partitions

grahamperrin1

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Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition stops responding, total system lock-up and other misbehaviour when scanning USB drive, or a folder, greater than 600 MB, on updated Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.6.3 with iWork, iLife and multiple partitions

busterb wrote:

…neither BootCamp nor Parallels Desktop / VMWare Fusion have never been anywhere near …

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. …

busterb wrote:

… doesn't work on a brand-new install of OS X on a just-formatted drive with no third-party software installed …

… my experience has been the 'free' version is buggy … 

 busterb wrote:

… my personal experience on my Macs is one of total system lock-up when scanning anything over 600 MB. Mind you one of those Macs was a freshly formatted drive, new install of Mac OS 10.6.3 and updated, only Apple software on the drive, nothing third-party save for Sophos Home. …

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    busterb wrote:
    grahamperrin wrote:

    018. Probably not a question I should ask, but what happens if we point a web browser at the root of one of the servers that's used for updates of the Home Edition and we assume https? 

    Oh, bloody hell did my Mac hate that one : 

    "Safari can't verify the identity of the website "es-web-4.sophos.com.edgesuite.net". The certificate for this website is invalid. 

    OK so that matches my screenshot 002 but considering the port 80 shown by Little Snitch, this certificate issue (probably relating to a different port for https) may be negligible. 

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    busterb wrote:
    grahamperrin wrote:

    018. Probably not a question I should ask, but what happens if we point a web browser at the root of one of the servers that's used for updates of the Home Edition and we assume https? 

    Oh, bloody hell did my Mac hate that one : 

    "Safari can't verify the identity of the website "es-web-4.sophos.com.edgesuite.net". The certificate for this website is invalid. 

    OK so that matches my screenshot 002 but considering the port 80 shown by Little Snitch, this certificate issue (probably relating to a different port for https) may be negligible. 

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