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Problem connecting???

daniel1948

From time to time Sophos connects to the net and downloads the latest signatures. (I assume that's what it's doing.) When this happens, I can hear my hard drive running. But this morning I was seeing the little downward bouncing arrow, yet the HD was not running. This went on for a very long time. Much longer than a download of the signatures normally takes. I was concerned, and finding no way to cancel the download (the "Cancel Download" selection was greyed out and not clickable) I used Activity Monitor to kill the process. I presume it will start up again next time I reboot the computer, but I don't want to do that until I know why it was behaving this way.

Can anybody tell me what's going on? Should I be concerned? 

iMac 5,1

OS X 10.6.8

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    Wow! A gazillion error messages, none of which make any sense to me, going way back before the issue I reported above, and continuing today, when there seems otherwise to be no problem. Lots and lots of "Preference plist was NOT a dictionary," lots of "Cannot find function pointer..." some "Error loading /Library/..." lots and lots of "The XMP toolkit returned an undefined error..."

    None of that means anything to me. I'm just going to knock on wood and hope that since it seems to be working, it is, and that all those error messages are nothing to be concerned about.

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    Wow! A gazillion error messages, none of which make any sense to me, going way back before the issue I reported above, and continuing today, when there seems otherwise to be no problem. Lots and lots of "Preference plist was NOT a dictionary," lots of "Cannot find function pointer..." some "Error loading /Library/..." lots and lots of "The XMP toolkit returned an undefined error..."

    None of that means anything to me. I'm just going to knock on wood and hope that since it seems to be working, it is, and that all those error messages are nothing to be concerned about.

    :1014023
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