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InterCheck Sophos ??????

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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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    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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    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.

    :1010424
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