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AV for Mac and Matlab

BobWhite

We have a Mac OS X 10.6 workstation that we recently installed the AntiVirus on.  The WS is used to run numerical processing apps that are generated from Matlab.  The apps rely on parallel processing to improve performance.  When the apps start up they open a large number of files, many of them quite large.  With the AV installed the processing slows to a crawl, and almost to a stand still.  Is there some way to set AV so it doesn't scan a app or any files that app may open?

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    Hello Momo,

    isn't the whole idea with Sophos antivirus to provide protection? 

    Sure - and to do so it has to scan files. If an application uses many (temporary) files to perform its processing the overhead is naturally noticeable (and perhaps prohibitive). There's not much a scanner can do (do you expect specific rules for all the applications out there?). It could give you the option to exempt a certain application - in case of MATLAB I can imagine that this then would generally be done. In turn MATLAB might become an interesting target for malware writers.

    If applications don't (or can't) play nice with scanners you better use them in a safe environment (e.g. disconnected from the network).

    Or what would you suggest?

    Christian

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    Hello Momo,

    isn't the whole idea with Sophos antivirus to provide protection? 

    Sure - and to do so it has to scan files. If an application uses many (temporary) files to perform its processing the overhead is naturally noticeable (and perhaps prohibitive). There's not much a scanner can do (do you expect specific rules for all the applications out there?). It could give you the option to exempt a certain application - in case of MATLAB I can imagine that this then would generally be done. In turn MATLAB might become an interesting target for malware writers.

    If applications don't (or can't) play nice with scanners you better use them in a safe environment (e.g. disconnected from the network).

    Or what would you suggest?

    Christian

    :33877
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