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Sophos AV / Internet Explorer cache issue and fix Apps
After installing Sophos Anti-Virus on a number of machines, Internet Explorer was taking three to four minutes to load. After turning on Desktop Error and Virus Reporting in Sophos, I discovered that Sophos was unable to read the IEcache.waf file stored in each user's Library -> Caches -> MS Internet Cache folder. Deleting this file corrects IE, and it then loads in the usual three to four seconds.

The problem sometimes reoccured on some machine; mainly those that had an Explorer cache size set higher than 20MB. So to permanently correct it, delete the cache files and reduce the cache size to 10MB to 20MB. Sophos is currently analysing one of my 75MB cache files that it hangs on reading.
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Sophos AV / Internet Explorer cache issue and fix
Authored by: gimparoo on Oct 28, '04 12:20:34PM

If you would use a more up to date browser for OS X, then these annoying problems would go away. Ever since I dumped IE, most, if not all of my browsing problems have gone away. Also, add in the fact that most other browsers are faster, cleaner, and have a better looking GUI.......



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Sophos AV / Internet Explorer cache issue and fix
Authored by: mattosaur4 on Oct 28, '04 04:16:37PM

My staff have the choice of Safari, IE and Netscape 7. only reason we still use IE is because theres still a lot of local web databases that only work properly with IE.

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Sophos AV / Internet Explorer cache issue and fix
Authored by: toadkicker on Oct 29, '04 08:37:25PM

We use Sophos at UCSD and have seen this problem before but never really investigated it. I agree that IE sucks for almost anything to do with the internet, but the reality is legacy apps might depend on it, and UCSD is no different. Isn't giving people a choice what it is all about? Thanks for the tip!

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