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Scan Local Drive Question

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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  •  Sorry, but I don't know how to disable "archive scanning" or even what you mean by "archive files." Are you referring to back up drives perhaps, e.g., Time Machine? In fact, I cannot get anything to work the way the instructions read. I deleted threats, but they are still there, for example. 

    The scanning has in fact identified the same threats in Time Machine. Couldn't I just delete from TM rather than follow custom scan instructions?

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  •  Sorry, but I don't know how to disable "archive scanning" or even what you mean by "archive files." Are you referring to back up drives perhaps, e.g., Time Machine? In fact, I cannot get anything to work the way the instructions read. I deleted threats, but they are still there, for example. 

    The scanning has in fact identified the same threats in Time Machine. Couldn't I just delete from TM rather than follow custom scan instructions?

    :1003169
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