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Does a scan resume if Sophos crashes before it has finished, or there is a Kernel Panic?

DerekWilliams

I have had Sophos anti-virus scanning for two whole days and it looks as though it may take another two before it has finished.  As my computer is very prone to kernel panics, I am worried that if this happens, the scan may start all over from the beginning instead of where it has gotten up to.

Can someone tell me if the scan resumes from where it has got up to at the time of a crash, accidental quit or kernel panic?

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Derek Williams



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    An on-deman scan will not resume if something (crashes or kernel panics) happens to your system. This behaviour might be changed in a future release.

    On the other hand I'm concerned about the long scan time. A fresh installed system scans in about 1 - 1.5 hours (single partition volume).

    Which Sophos Anti-Virus version do you run and which OS version are you using?
  • 0 in reply to frankfenn
    My first scan has been running for two days solid and is only half way thru the 7 million files - I have to turn it off this morning to move it and I imagine this will start again! Is this normal as I cant imagine it is and do you have any suggestions?
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