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Solve a VMWare/Parallels and Sophos Anti-virus slowdown
Authored by: robdew on Mar 20, '09 10:35:35AM

Excluding your virtual disks from scanning is a common practice with AV in general, and I doubt this was restricted to a current release of Sophos, since there is no Sophos KB release note specific to this issue.

We run a several-hundred-sized installation of Sophos and have not had a report of a recent update causing this problem.

To answer one of the other commenter's semi-rhetorical question, many users run AV on their Mac because they are required by contract or regulations. Are those regs stupid? Maybe, but don't blame the user.



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