A couple of days ago, I manually started an AntiVirus scan on my iMac.
Since it crashed, I don't have the specific numbers, but the progress window said something like:
"Scanning 2 items
<filename here>
21,nnn,nnn of 5,199,nnn files.
Various questions follow.
- It had been running for over two days. Is this "normal?" I've used Norton AntiVirus on PCs and their scans were much quicker.
- Does "items" mean volumes?
- I assume the 21 million files it scanned were contents of zipped files? After it passed the 5 million mark and kept going, I realized I never unchecked the "Scan compressed files" checkbox. Is there any point to having the full scan also check packed files, since the software will automatically scan the file contents if I viewed/unpacked it?
- Since it crashed, is there any proof of whether it did or didn't find any viruses, so far? I checked the Activity Log but saw no mention at of recent AntiVirus messages.
I'm a bit leery of repeating the scan now, since it takes so long to check my computer, and I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about the product in general at this point. You previously had me turn off Auto-Protect (since there was some bug in an Apple NTFS driver that caused your product to crash when checking the Bootcamp volume), and now I can't do a manual scan, without it taking days, and crashing.