Sophos scan causes computer to hang up.

[Globalti]

Windows XP, when I run Sophos anti-virus the check gets to 2% and freezes, completely hanging up the laptop. No items are reported at that point.

Any ideas?

 

[MacB]

could be Sophos, could be a virus that doesn't like being scanned for, try going to here and downloading malwarebytes:-

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...sts&result_type=topics&highlite=+malwarebytes

download direct to laptop or put on USB via another machine. I'd then startup in safe mode and run malwarebytes. Restart and run again in safemode with networking and finally reboot and run again in normal mode. Then you can try running Sophos again.

 

[Globalti]

Thanks. I tried it for the fourth time again with the wi-fi switched off and it ran right through, so I dunno....

Nothing found.

Thanks anyway.