Mavericks freezing / Applications not responding

Before I start this problem is not isolated to one machine. We have around several MacBook Pros from 2012 onwards,  Retina MacBook Pros and iMacs.
The Retina laptops came with Mavericks installed.
So our general issues are:
- Fan noise loud
- Machine with no acitvity starts wurring up
- All applications not responding then having to hard restart
- Laptop running hot
This has only happened since release of Mavericks and is not SSD related as we have had non SSD related Macs with the problem.
Almost every machine I've listed above has experienced the issues above.
Does anyone know a fix for this or is Mavericks just not worth using?

HA IT --
Are you all running some kind of Security or AV program on your Macs?  Something that would be oconstantly scanning files?

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