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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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  • That sounds like a working plan to me... if  one of the external drives is a Time Machine drive, you can just go into Time Machine, select the file, and remove all backups of that file (context menu).  My guess is that this is where the other copies will be found.

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  • That sounds like a working plan to me... if  one of the external drives is a Time Machine drive, you can just go into Time Machine, select the file, and remove all backups of that file (context menu).  My guess is that this is where the other copies will be found.

    :1003193
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