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Manual Cleanup

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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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    Despite the fact that the threats in question disappeared from QM, I went back to make sure they were gone. The files I had tried to remove from TM are still there and on my HD. I disabled on-access, as you suggested, but they still could not be deleted by Sophos. I am asked for my password, and I insert it, but nothing happens when I click to delete all backups.

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    Despite the fact that the threats in question disappeared from QM, I went back to make sure they were gone. The files I had tried to remove from TM are still there and on my HD. I disabled on-access, as you suggested, but they still could not be deleted by Sophos. I am asked for my password, and I insert it, but nothing happens when I click to delete all backups.

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