The SymAVScanDaemon is beating on one of my external disks, and sucking between 50-150% of my CPU. I let it run for a day in hopes that it would finish whatever scan it's working on, but it hasn't completed and there's no way to know what kind of progress it's making. It has currently run for 17:20:38.60 CPU hours.
I don't think that the Daemon is in a healthy state. In the console, every three or four seconds or so, I see:
7/3/2009 1:47:16 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application[62614]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
7/3/2009 1:47:16 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
7/3/2009 1:47:22 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62616] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:26 PM ReportCrash[62617] Formulating crash report for process SymUIAgent[62616]
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM ReportCrash[62617] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134722_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application[62616]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:37 PM ReportCrash[62622] Formulating crash report for process SymUIAgent[62621]
7/3/2009 1:47:38 PM ReportCrash[62622] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134733_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
7/3/2009 1:47:38 PM ReportCrash[62622] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134733_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
7/3/2009 1:47:16 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
7/3/2009 1:47:22 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62616] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:26 PM ReportCrash[62617] Formulating crash report for process SymUIAgent[62616]
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM ReportCrash[62617] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134722_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application[62616]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
7/3/2009 1:47:27 PM com.apple.launchd[175] (com.symantec.uiagent.application) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:33 PM /Library/Application Support/Symantec/SymUIAgent/SymUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SymUIAgent[62621] Norton AntiVirus QuickMenu could not connect to SymSharedSettings (Invalid settings)
7/3/2009 1:47:37 PM ReportCrash[62622] Formulating crash report for process SymUIAgent[62621]
7/3/2009 1:47:38 PM ReportCrash[62622] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134733_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
7/3/2009 1:47:38 PM ReportCrash[62622] Saved crashreport to /Users/dondo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SymUIAgent_2009-07-03-134733_SilverSurfer-7.crash using uid: 501 gid: 501, euid: 501 egid: 501
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