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Why does it stop scanning for extended periods?

RobLewis

I started SAV on "Scan Local Drives" this morning (it's late afternoon now) and so far it's scanned less than 8% of my 5 million files. Oddly, it seems to just stop scanning for extended periods: the "Items Remaining" counter stops decrementing and nothing happens for several minutes. Then it starts up again. 

At this rate, it's going to take days to complete a scan, and meanwhile my system is rather sluggish. I don't even know if it's worth waiting for it to finish. 

Anyone else seen this? 

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    I'm having the same problem.  My scan has been stuck at the same number of items for about 12 hours.  A previous scan hung for days, before I had to reboot.  Together, all the processes whose name begins with Sophos (Anti-Virus, AntiVirus, etc.) are using less than 10% of one CPU.  The total memory of all these processes is less than 200 MBytes.  I'm running OS X Lion on an old MacBook with a Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM.

    I agree that a file notification would help a lot.

    :1006481
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    I'm having the same problem.  My scan has been stuck at the same number of items for about 12 hours.  A previous scan hung for days, before I had to reboot.  Together, all the processes whose name begins with Sophos (Anti-Virus, AntiVirus, etc.) are using less than 10% of one CPU.  The total memory of all these processes is less than 200 MBytes.  I'm running OS X Lion on an old MacBook with a Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM.

    I agree that a file notification would help a lot.

    :1006481
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