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Windows 7 Home Premium and download speed.

Edwin

With the combination of Sophos Antivirus version 9 and Windows 7 Home Premium there seems to be a problem with the download speed.

When the on-access scanning is enabled the download speed drops down significantly.

on-access scanning on: about 9 mb\sec.
on-access scanning off: about 4 mb\sec.

I’’’’ve tested on several 32x and 64 x systems with the same results. Also tried several exclusion options and different internet lines without success

Anyone else with this problem?

Kind regards,

Edwin

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    i have the same problem with xp (the difference is 50 mbit versus 20 mbit).

    Did you find a solution for ths problem?

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    Hi,

    I would expect this is down to the Sophos BHO and the way the site calculates the speeds in the embedded Java applet/Flash application.  The Sophos BHO buffers 2MB of content for a single resource request in order to scan it before letting it through.  I would suspect that the download test pulls a large file, so the BHO would skew the results.

    If you use Chrome or Firefox for example or disable the Sophos BHO in IE, I would expect the same times?

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Hi,

    Thak You very much for Your information. The BHO was indeed the problem.

    Greetings,

    Jan

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