purpose of the timer when scanning?

[macgig]

running SB on reboot, timer went to 0 and it's not even half done... then it started over again at 60 minutes.

whats the purpose of the timer? I would think its to tell me when the scan is done but thats not the case it seems. I don't see the point of it.

otherwise, great program. SB rules.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

The timer should show how long the scan approximately will take.
Sometimes Spybot – Search & Destroy can not delete all files. Some files used by Windows are running in the background. If you would delete these files before the application they are involved in ends, your system might become instable. That is the reason why you sometimes have to restart your system to complete the cleaning process.
In this case the SDCleaner/SDDelfile destroys the found items, before they are activated. If you do not want this option you can easily disable it in the SDCleaner itself. Go to the Spybot 2 folder, by default:
Windows XP: C:\Program Files\Spybot – Search & Destroy 2
Windows Vista or Windows 7 or Windows 8: C:\Programs (x86)\Spybot – Search & Destroy 2
and open the SDCleaner.exe.
Here you can uncheck the checkbox in front of “Run cleaner on system startup”.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot