Just an update.
ESET has been scanning, now, for over 12.5 hours.
It has found 199 "infected files" and scanned 905584 files.
Yet, it is still only at 48%.
The "target" is "Q:/" - which I think is my partitioned drive. Using vmware, last year or the year before, I partitioned my C:/ and installed on it a copy of my xp. I did this so that my scanner could continued functioning; when I switched to 7, Microsoft had declared the device obsolete - despite it was working fine, under xp. (You know how care-free rich Microsoft gets with everybody else's money!)
I intend to let ESET continue, for a while, still, but thought I would mention what was happening - just in case there was something wrong.
Incidentally, the last time ESET scanned my machine, the scan time was just 4:26:20.
- r