Spybot "Professional" version can not complete system scan

[Lawrence Keeney]

I started a scan and the software indicated completion time was something less than 2 hours. However, after about 1 1/2 hours the completion time turned to 1568 (or something close to this) and ran for many hours without this number changing. When I got up this morning, it appeared to have finished the scan. I tried to clean up the problems it found, but received a message that the program could not continue.

I started another scan this morning and it has been running for 4 hours and shows the message "Estimated time left : 1569". I am afraid I am going to have the same problem in the software not being able to fix the problems it finds.

I have been using this software for quite a few years and have never had it take this long to do a scan of my system. Is this long scan time normal? Why can it not clean up the problem it finds?

[Lawrence Keeney]

I started a scan and the software indicated completion time was something less than 2 hours. However, after about 1 1/2 hours the completion time turned to 1568 (or something close to this) and ran for many hours without this number changing. When I got up this morning, it appeared to have finished the scan. I tried to clean up the problems it found, but received a message that the program could not continue.

I started another scan this morning and it has been running for 4 hours and shows the message "Estimated time left : 1569". I am afraid I am going to have the same problem in the software not being able to fix the problems it finds.

I have been using this software for quite a few years and have never had it take this long to do a scan of my system. Is this long scan time normal? Why can it not clean up the problem it finds?

Problem Resolved:
Even though I had the message that the program could not continue, I just let it run, and within an hours I did fix the problems it found.

This is all a little strange since I have been using this software for a long time and never had this problem before.