SophosAV slows the dictionary pop-up

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I've got the virus scanner from Sophos installed on my Mac with on-access-scan enabled.

The on-access-scan delays the dictionary pop-up for several seconds for every first prompt after boot up.

You can prompt the dictionary pop-up by using either ctrl+⌘+D or three fingers double-tab.

I can choose to disable on-access-scan for /Applications/Dictionary.app in the SophosAV preferences. However, this does not solve the problem. What should I do?

Best Answer

I'm stupid. Of course one has to exclude the location where the actual dictionaries are located.

In the Sophos preferences you need to exclude the following locations from your on-access-scan:

 1. /Library/Dictionaries

 2. /Users/your_username/Library/Dictionaries
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