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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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    Thanks. In the first case, the preference for compressed files was already unchecked. So that was not the problem. In the second, I created the custom scan, and when I started it, I was down to only 1 million + files to scan rather than 5-6 million. So this will help a lot.

    However, I noticed that while 24 threats have been identified right under the progress bar, only 3 are actually listed under Custom Scans. Why is that? Have the others been automatically deleted?

    Really appreciate your help! But I guess I'm still in for another night of keeping the computer awake. I have been getting so many beach balls no matter what I'm doing, and I think it must be because of the continual scanning. I need to restart the computer badly. I don't suppose it would pick up the current scan where it left off, would it?

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    Thanks. In the first case, the preference for compressed files was already unchecked. So that was not the problem. In the second, I created the custom scan, and when I started it, I was down to only 1 million + files to scan rather than 5-6 million. So this will help a lot.

    However, I noticed that while 24 threats have been identified right under the progress bar, only 3 are actually listed under Custom Scans. Why is that? Have the others been automatically deleted?

    Really appreciate your help! But I guess I'm still in for another night of keeping the computer awake. I have been getting so many beach balls no matter what I'm doing, and I think it must be because of the continual scanning. I need to restart the computer badly. I don't suppose it would pick up the current scan where it left off, would it?

    :1003183
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