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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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    MATLAB starts immediately if on-access scanning is turned off before launching it, and then turned on after the sucessful launch.  When Sophos insists on Scanning a 2GB application file on launch, it goes into deep freeze and I never had the patience to wait for it to finish (minutes at least).  Now, if it were possible to exempt that intial on-launch scan then it would all be fine.  Furthermore, it should only have to be done once.  Surely, once scanned, or once declared safe (exempt) by the user, it ispossible to detect any change in the file with some basic checksum or similar protection scheme.  But it is not possible with Sophos.  The protection has to be turned off and on every time before and after launching MATLAB.  That's simply not good enough.

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    MATLAB starts immediately if on-access scanning is turned off before launching it, and then turned on after the sucessful launch.  When Sophos insists on Scanning a 2GB application file on launch, it goes into deep freeze and I never had the patience to wait for it to finish (minutes at least).  Now, if it were possible to exempt that intial on-launch scan then it would all be fine.  Furthermore, it should only have to be done once.  Surely, once scanned, or once declared safe (exempt) by the user, it ispossible to detect any change in the file with some basic checksum or similar protection scheme.  But it is not possible with Sophos.  The protection has to be turned off and on every time before and after launching MATLAB.  That's simply not good enough.

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