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Scan Local Drive Question

Nuts4Cats

When I installed Sophos, I thought it would be a good idea to scan the whole Mac once. That was days ago. It has barely moved. There are over 5 million items, of course, but still, this seems unreasonable. It is slow whether I do nothing or continue to work. I leave it on all night to let it run in peace, but it has not progressed far by morning. Is there any way to speed this up? 

Right away, it identified 3 threats. I removed them as instructed, but they still remain in the main window. Should I delete them?

I am using the latest Snow Leopard version on an iMac with 4 GB ram. It is also slowing down everything else I do. 

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    Try doing an initial scan with archive scanning disabled; this should go very quickly.  After that, you may have some large archive files you want to exclude from the scan; for this, create a custom scan, and manually exclude the archives.

    If you then want to scan only those archives at a later date, you can do this with a second custom scan.

    This should speed up scanning of most of your files, leaving the large archives for a time when your computer is relatively unused.

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    Try doing an initial scan with archive scanning disabled; this should go very quickly.  After that, you may have some large archive files you want to exclude from the scan; for this, create a custom scan, and manually exclude the archives.

    If you then want to scan only those archives at a later date, you can do this with a second custom scan.

    This should speed up scanning of most of your files, leaving the large archives for a time when your computer is relatively unused.

    :1003165
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