OS X 10.6.8,
Sophos Anti-Virus 9.0.11:
Recently, I experience unacceptable delays the first time I load an application after a period of not using it. This may be the result of the most recent update of SAV; I'm not sure.
This is a Java application that I am writing, using a large number of Java libraries that I've installed.
It appears that what's taking so long is Intercheck, and I am guessing that this is running the On-Access Scanner.
At present, I don't want to disable the On-Access Scanner completely. Seems like a good thing. My guess is that I could speed up access to my Java app if I disabled scanning inside compressed files (e.g. jar files), but that seems like a good thing to have, in general, too. Not for the stuff that I knowingly installed, though.
Questions:
Does what I just wrote make sense? I'm just guessing, so I'd like confirmation.
How does SAV decide when it needs to scan the application when the application runs? Every time I reboot? Is there a time period? Can it be configured?
How can I disable the on-access scanning for things that I install and trust? It appears that the excluded items dialogue allows this. However, the Choose dialogue does not allow me to choose anything under /usr. Why not? I install parts of the application under /usr/local. I've entered /usr/local by hand, but I don't know whether that will work.
Sorry to ask these questions without doing further experimentation. However, since I don't really understand what SAV is doing here, I'd rather not waste time if I am guessing wrongly about what is happening.
(I tried searching the knowledge base for information about this, but didn't find anything. My questions are pretty straightforward, and the information may be there, but it's difficult to formulate a search that will find the appropriate information.)
Thanks!
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