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Incomplete Scans

I just installed the free mac anti virus program and when I scan all files it goes through the process then stops, saying no threar found and the files haven't been scanned.  How do I do a complete scan?

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  • I also have run into this same problem.. local scan..runs for about 10000 files more or less and then it stops with no error message, it has to do with Root I think, Admin user seems to not be enough to get past it so.. on 10.4.11 go into your utilities folder. open net info manager, then in the drop down menu select enable root user, im still doing a scan but before it would quit after about 10000 files or so..depending when it ran into something needing root privileges, may or may not work for you guys but so far for me its far past the stopping point where it usually stopped.... still going strong at about 370,000 files left from the 457,000. if you dont see another post from me then everything went fine as far as the complete scan goes. Oh..and if your web browsers have been running really slow..try disabling Java from within the app itself.
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  • I also have run into this same problem.. local scan..runs for about 10000 files more or less and then it stops with no error message, it has to do with Root I think, Admin user seems to not be enough to get past it so.. on 10.4.11 go into your utilities folder. open net info manager, then in the drop down menu select enable root user, im still doing a scan but before it would quit after about 10000 files or so..depending when it ran into something needing root privileges, may or may not work for you guys but so far for me its far past the stopping point where it usually stopped.... still going strong at about 370,000 files left from the 457,000. if you dont see another post from me then everything went fine as far as the complete scan goes. Oh..and if your web browsers have been running really slow..try disabling Java from within the app itself.
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