depends on several things, not the least of which is how many files you have on the hard disk and what proportion of those are infected with malware. It doesn't help that this is your first scan either, if it were me I' would just let it continue and see what happens. It's your call though. Cheers! Gordon From glorious Devon, England email: gordon.keen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Adaware | Well, it seems to have frozen, and is just hanging. Any idea of the time it | takes to do a full deep scan? ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq