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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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  • There might some .zip files and definitely .dmg files but all .docx are converted, and I am not familiar with the others. But the question remains as to how I disable scanning from these files. I doubt there are that many out of the 5-6 million files that are being scanned. I have 4 back up drives, and maybe that is what is taking so long. Is it possible to set it up not to scan the external drives? Then I could just go into them and look for the same files and delete them as you suggest.

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  • There might some .zip files and definitely .dmg files but all .docx are converted, and I am not familiar with the others. But the question remains as to how I disable scanning from these files. I doubt there are that many out of the 5-6 million files that are being scanned. I have 4 back up drives, and maybe that is what is taking so long. Is it possible to set it up not to scan the external drives? Then I could just go into them and look for the same files and delete them as you suggest.

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