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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
…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. …
… 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 …
… 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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