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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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    1. Click the black shield icon in the menu bar and select "Open Preferences..."
    2. Untick the "Scan inside archives and compressed files" tickbox.
    3. There is no third step.  Close the window, and press the "play" button beside Scan Local Drives.

     To exclude external drives, just create a custom scan:

    1. make sure the triangle in front of  "Custom Scans" is pointing down
    2. Click the + button at the bottom of the screen
    3. Name your scan, and then drag the drives/folders you want to scan from a finder window into the white rectangle
    4. Click Done
    5. Click the "play" button for your custom scan.

    If you want, you can click the pencil button beside the play button to further customize your scan prior to scanning.

    Remember: on-access scanning happens all the time; you don't need to repeatedly run manual scans (custom scans or "scan local drives") unless you've changed your settings to have different exceptions when doing on-access scanning and manual scans.

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    1. Click the black shield icon in the menu bar and select "Open Preferences..."
    2. Untick the "Scan inside archives and compressed files" tickbox.
    3. There is no third step.  Close the window, and press the "play" button beside Scan Local Drives.

     To exclude external drives, just create a custom scan:

    1. make sure the triangle in front of  "Custom Scans" is pointing down
    2. Click the + button at the bottom of the screen
    3. Name your scan, and then drag the drives/folders you want to scan from a finder window into the white rectangle
    4. Click Done
    5. Click the "play" button for your custom scan.

    If you want, you can click the pencil button beside the play button to further customize your scan prior to scanning.

    Remember: on-access scanning happens all the time; you don't need to repeatedly run manual scans (custom scans or "scan local drives") unless you've changed your settings to have different exceptions when doing on-access scanning and manual scans.

    :1003179
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