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Why does it stop scanning for extended periods?

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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0 Diz over 11 years ago
For 'issues detected' see this post: Sophos Antivirus for Mac shows ‘‘‘‘Issues detected’’’’
If I quit, will it resume scanning from where it left off, or start all over?
No, it'll start again.
Is there a way to see if Sophos hang is a crash or just some sort of Mystery File?
I remember reading a post on here that the frontend UI doesn't report all the scans scanned because it would be too intensive. You can use the command line version to log all files looked at.
Is there a txt file somewhere that gives any indication of what its doing Right Now?
Console logs the scan. See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Mac-tools-help/How-to-view-the-full-path-to-a-virus-infected-file/td-p/433
How long do you guys (users) wait before giving up?
Depending on the size of the drive and number of files the scan can take a while. If you're scanning Time Machine backup and compressed files the scan time also increases. See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/clean-up-failed/td-p/13621
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0 Diz over 11 years ago
For 'issues detected' see this post: Sophos Antivirus for Mac shows ‘‘‘‘Issues detected’’’’
If I quit, will it resume scanning from where it left off, or start all over?
No, it'll start again.
Is there a way to see if Sophos hang is a crash or just some sort of Mystery File?
I remember reading a post on here that the frontend UI doesn't report all the scans scanned because it would be too intensive. You can use the command line version to log all files looked at.
Is there a txt file somewhere that gives any indication of what its doing Right Now?
Console logs the scan. See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Mac-tools-help/How-to-view-the-full-path-to-a-virus-infected-file/td-p/433
How long do you guys (users) wait before giving up?
Depending on the size of the drive and number of files the scan can take a while. If you're scanning Time Machine backup and compressed files the scan time also increases. See: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/clean-up-failed/td-p/13621
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