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Scan Local Drive Question

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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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    OK, we're almost there. You've been amazing help. The scan of just my main HD is done, and it found no threats. Must mean my manual cleanup did work after all.  But the 8 instances of each threat would mean that I have 8 drives, wouldn't it? I don't. When I finally canceled that scan, it was up to 28, and I suppose it would have found more had I been able to let it complete.

    So what I have to do now is to find those 3 threats on every external drive and just manually delete them without using Sophos. Is that right? Then I just let it run in the background?

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    OK, we're almost there. You've been amazing help. The scan of just my main HD is done, and it found no threats. Must mean my manual cleanup did work after all.  But the 8 instances of each threat would mean that I have 8 drives, wouldn't it? I don't. When I finally canceled that scan, it was up to 28, and I suppose it would have found more had I been able to let it complete.

    So what I have to do now is to find those 3 threats on every external drive and just manually delete them without using Sophos. Is that right? Then I just let it run in the background?

    :1003191
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