Hm, so this is a Squeak issue or a AVG issue? Is this happening with 
other Anti-Virus products?
I'm working at Grisoft so maybe could fix it if AVG does the problem ;-)

Elod
> That's interesting. I also use AVG, and I have noticed the same problem (on
> Windows 2000).
> I hadn't thought that it could be AVG causing the problem. Now it makes sense.
>
> Interestingly, it doesn't seem to happen when Squeak is minimized.
>
> Sometimes I can delete the error messages from the console, then hide the
> console window, and the image is useable, though slow.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ersatznom" <bbound at gmail.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:07 PM
> Subject: Squeak hangs when AVG virus scan is run
>
>
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>> As the subject says: Squeak hangs if an AVG anti-virus scan is run. I
>> know, because I have one scheduled for 8 am on Saturdays and exactly at
>> 8 Morphic locked up solid and stopped processing events.
>>
>> Contrast with the email client I'm using, which is a touch sluggish but
>> otherwise working perfectly.
>>
>> There's been no response that I could detect (even scanning the archives
>> again) to my response to the VM crash thread.
>>
>> There are also performance issues. Performing 100,000 math operations on
>> floats and small integers with some message passing, looping, and block
>> calling takes a full second or two on a 2GHz machine. Is that normal?
>>
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