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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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    Archives include .zip files, .dmg files, .jar files, .docx files, .tgz files, and many others.  Time Machine also often uses archive files (sparseImage bundles) to achieve its magic.

    For example, if you have a zip file that contains a bunch of files, a few of which are malicious, Sophos will identify the malicious contents, but will not delete the zip file, as it also has the potential to contain non-malicious files.

    As far as Time Machine goes, you are indeed probably better off going into Time Machine, right clicking the file in question, and selecting to remove all backups of the file.  As documented in other threads on here, the safest way to remove anything from Time Machine is always via the Time Machine interface.

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    Archives include .zip files, .dmg files, .jar files, .docx files, .tgz files, and many others.  Time Machine also often uses archive files (sparseImage bundles) to achieve its magic.

    For example, if you have a zip file that contains a bunch of files, a few of which are malicious, Sophos will identify the malicious contents, but will not delete the zip file, as it also has the potential to contain non-malicious files.

    As far as Time Machine goes, you are indeed probably better off going into Time Machine, right clicking the file in question, and selecting to remove all backups of the file.  As documented in other threads on here, the safest way to remove anything from Time Machine is always via the Time Machine interface.

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