Sophos fixes Retrospect 8 Scanning time issue?

Well, it appears that Sophos may have resolved a problem with their On-Access Scanning & Retrospect 8.  While I have not had a chance to test this yet, Version 7.1.3 of Sophos has this in it’s release notes:

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.1.3

Threat detection engine 3.04.1

Threat data 4.50, February 2010

New in this version

This version includes fixes for the following problems:

  • DEF 47375: On-access scanning causes increased scanning time with EMC Retrospect.
  • DEF 52975: Scans started from the Sophos Anti-Virus Mac OS X GUI attempt to scan Stuffit archives, although scanning for this format is not supported.

See Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X release notes for more details.