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Sophos Triggering a Virus that takes all disk space

I have discovered a problem in running your software. This is happened on 2 different Macintosh computers (although one is just a migration of the information on the other). When I use your Sophos program to scan my hard disk for viruses, everything goes along fine until it reaches a certain number of around 197,000 (that number does not matter).

It is there that it stalls and appears to be working on a very large file. The reality is that it seems to trigger some sort of virus that completely fills up the empty space on my hard drive in about 20-30 minutes, until I get a warning that I have run out of disk space. Then I have to force quit my computer as I am unable to save files or even quit programs. Again, this happened twice and when I tried it a third time, I shut it down before it filled my hard disk again. 

Please advise me on the best solution to this problem. I don't want to run it again as I have already caused enough problems with it and the virus has not yet been removed. 

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  • This is no virus... it is decompressing an archive and scanning the contents.  Turn off "scan inside archives and compressed files" and the problem will go away.  However, you won't have scanned inside archives and compressed files.

    It sounds like you have a very large archive in the scan path.

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  • This is no virus... it is decompressing an archive and scanning the contents.  Turn off "scan inside archives and compressed files" and the problem will go away.  However, you won't have scanned inside archives and compressed files.

    It sounds like you have a very large archive in the scan path.

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