The items causing the slowdown are not in Vuze.app, but in your related Vuze folders.
What I'd suggest is disabling On-Access for the Vuze Application Support folder, and setting Vuze up to have a staging downloads folder that is also excluded. When the torrents are complete, set them to be moved to a regular folder, and they will be scanned by on-access at that point. This way, you don't have all the file handle open/close issues that trigger and re-trigger on-access scanning, but all downloaded content is still scanned prior to being made available. Name the staging folder with a "." at the beginning to make it invisible in the finder if you'd like, to prevent accidental messing with folder contents. To secure it further, you can place the folder somewhere that doesn't have executable permissions, to prevent the unlikely case that some other malicious process drops a file in there and attempts to run it.
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Andrew
Threat Researcher
SophosLabs
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