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InterCheck Sophos ??????

Cage

I have little snitch running and I keep getting that theres is an operation called intercheck that Sophos trying to run and its asking me to allow it or deny it. 

I do not know what to do ?

/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/InterCheck.app/Contents/MacOS/InterCheck

so what do I do and what is it ? Why does it need to run ? What is its purpose ?

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    Allow it; InterCheck needs to contact Sophos if you have Live Protection enabled.  InterCheck is the core process used to scan software and detect malicious content.

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    I really appreciate Sophos Anti-Virus ~ especially that it has remained free. To the above issue I find that "InterCheck" is performing its actions at inopportune times... I use my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.6.8) with Parallels to run my futures trading platform using Windows ~ I can tell when "InterCheck" is running as my fans max out ~ this is not good when in the process of trading ~ "InterCheck" is stealing processor cycles from my trading platform.

    It would be wonderful if we could schedule when "InterCheck" runs ~ for me I would tell Sophos Anti-Virus not to run between the hours of 05:00am pst ~ 01:30pm pst.

    Would this be possible to implement in a future version?

    Rick

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    RickAce wrote:

    I really appreciate Sophos Anti-Virus ~ especially that it has remained free. To the above issue I find that "InterCheck" is performing its actions at inopportune times... I use my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.6.8) with Parallels to run my futures trading platform using Windows ~ I can tell when "InterCheck" is running as my fans max out ~ this is not good when in the process of trading ~ "InterCheck" is stealing processor cycles from my trading platform.

    It would be wonderful if we could schedule when "InterCheck" runs ~ for me I would tell Sophos Anti-Virus not to run between the hours of 05:00am pst ~ 01:30pm pst.

    Would this be possible to implement in a future version?

    Rick

    Unfortunately, no... Intercheck is ALWAYS running, and if you have on-access scanning enabled, it ramps up whenever you're accessing files.

    Most likely your issue here is that you hava a parallels volume that is being constantly updated -- and so the on-access scanner (intercheck) is constantly re-scanning this large volume.  As the parallels volume is never going to become malicious itself, your best bet is to exclude it from on-access scans and see if this fixes your problem.

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    I have turned off On-access Scanning, and disabled Live Protection, yet I still get an InterCheck process that uses disgusting amounts of RAM.  Why is this A-V using so much system resources when it's not even supposed to be running?

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    clarsen wrote:

    I have turned off On-access Scanning, and disabled Live Protection, yet I still get an InterCheck process that uses disgusting amounts of RAM.  Why is this A-V using so much system resources when it's not even supposed to be running?

    same here turned off and still the same error,  and yes it only occured  due to an update. detect engine 3.38.1

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