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Manual Cleanup

Nuts4Cats

Have the Lion updated Sophos for Mac. 99% of the threats that appear are not cleaned up automatically but must be handled manually. I now have 25 threats, all on my Time Machine drive. I created a custom scan for the TM drive, where all these threats are located. It ran for two days with no end in sight, and it was wreaking havoc with my computer's functionality. Ultimately, I had to restart the iMac today, thus canceling the scan, which I had my doubts about anyway. It it supposed to take so long?

I looked at a couple of the threats, not all, and I suspect they are all for Windows only. At this point, should I just clear them from the list? I have never been able to get a custom scan to work properly, and just on general principles I would like to make sure I have not done something wrong. Has anyone else had this problem where it just runs endlessly?

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    Please do a search on here for Time Machine :)

    Your best option for removing threats from within Time Machine is to do it by hand, from within Time Machine.  Removing threats from outside Time Machine with Time Machine enabled could cause problems with your backups.

    If you don't want to worry about potential Windows malware in your backups, just exclude your Time Machine volume from on-access and on-demand scans, and remove the detections from the quarantine manager.  I'd also suggest excluding your temporary and cache folders from Time Machine backups, to speed up backups, save space, and prevent conflicts with other software that may read the Time Machine volume.

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    Please do a search on here for Time Machine :)

    Your best option for removing threats from within Time Machine is to do it by hand, from within Time Machine.  Removing threats from outside Time Machine with Time Machine enabled could cause problems with your backups.

    If you don't want to worry about potential Windows malware in your backups, just exclude your Time Machine volume from on-access and on-demand scans, and remove the detections from the quarantine manager.  I'd also suggest excluding your temporary and cache folders from Time Machine backups, to speed up backups, save space, and prevent conflicts with other software that may read the Time Machine volume.

    :1007195
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