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How long does the anti-virus scan take to complete?

Based on a recent recommendation from Kim Komando, I installed the Sophos Virus Removal Tool and started the scan.  However, after over 4 hours, the scan was not even 2% complete (based on what I believe is the progress bar).  Thinking something was stuck in a loop, I stopped the scan, uninstalled the tool, then reinstalled it and began another scan.  It has been over an hour and it shows less than 2% complete. 

How long does this thing take???  So far, it shows no problems and it appears to be running, but is this scan going to take all week?  Any feedback is appreciated!!

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  • Update:  The scan finally completed around 11pm with no problems found.  The scan took approximately 9 hours to complete.  As a footnote, I use McAfee as my primary antivirus software and I did not disable it while using the Sophos Virus Removal tool.  Don't know if the McAfee might have slowed the scan down, but I am happy with the results, albeit a bit slow.

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  • I use the free editon of avast! for my virus protection and I installed Sophos and ran it. Took all together my 15 minutes I actually think it was less.

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