I have run Sophos Anti-virus on my Mac laptop several times now and every time it hangs half-way through the scan. From what I can tell, it is hanging on the exact same file each time. I get no message of any kind, just the progress bar showing how far along it is and the number of files scanned. I am running Yosemite on my Mac. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Darin
It seems to have something to do with archives and compressed files. I've been having this problem for a long time. When "Scan inside archives and compressed files" is turned off (by unchecking that box in preferences), the scans complete in short order. But when it is turned *on*, the scans always slow down severely at about the 90% completed point. For me this was always happens at approx 610,000 of 775,000 files scanned (no file names are displayed). From that point, it would slow down to the rate of about another 1,000 files scanned every 45 minutes or so. That calculates out to approx 48 hours to finish the scan! And my fans also start racing almost continuously from then on. So I always stopped it instead.
Trouble is, I have no idea if skipping scanning inside archives and compressed files might be missing potential threats. And I don't think it should take over 2 days to find out.
P.S. Sorry I missed Serra's entries from December 16, 2015 when I replied here. I certainly hope engineering can fix this. It's been a very long standing issue. And yes, probably not a good idea to exclude all archives and compressed files.
