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MacHomeAV interferes w/Java

caspersgrin

Hi,

Back in June I installed the Sophos home edition anti-virus and then I began to notice java apps took a long time to come up and it came to a real head when I attended a development conference and I could brely get NetBean or Eclipse (both Java IDEs) to function.  Originally I though this might be a hardware problem but after doing some googling I found several posts describing my Mac specific java problem exactly and the specific fix was to remove the Sophos home edition.  I did that, and the problems all went away.

I assume that what I downloaded in June is an older version than what I can download right now.  So, the question is: has that problem been fixed or are there specific options that can prevent that.  Otherwise, that slowness is a show stopper.

Thanks,

Rob

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    I have had speed issues all the way around too - and even though I was told to uncheck something I cannot find the info through a search as to how to do it...  I am torn between removal which i did and speed came back and then installing it again - due to various viruses and malware etc that are hitting macs and older macs too, and not running anything and taking that chance....

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    It's Scan inside archives and compressed files in the On-Access settings - which when turned on can cause a significant slowdown (it's usually safe to turn it off). Note that performance will suffer anyway if the application loads very many executables as they all have to be scanned.

    Christian

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    ok they are off as i suspected.  still very slow!!!!

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    QC wrote:

    It's Scan inside archives and compressed files in the On-Access settings - which when turned on can cause a significant slowdown (it's usually safe to turn it off). Note that performance will suffer anyway if the application loads very many executables as they all have to be scanned.

    Christian

    One note... After the first access of this kind of application, all the scans should be cached, so future loads should be faster, unless the data has changed.  If this isn't the case, something's wrong and likely needs to be investigated.

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    I am seeing major issues with anything Java related and SAV 8.011C with On-Access Scanning enabled.
    Even simply checking the version of Java (Java -version in terminal) causes the InterCheck process to spike to 100% and prevents the Terminal command from completing

    SAV Free 8.0.11C

    MacOS X 10.6.8

    Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_43 (also tested w/ 1.6.0_41)

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