Scan (Smart and Custom) stalls at 58-59%

Everytime I run Scan, it stalls around 58-59% on my Win 7 64bit i7-860 computer, with one SSD Drive and a RAID Drive.

Is there a way to get past this?

 

What file/folder is it scanning? It may be scanning a large zip file, or the like, which takes much more time.
Matt

 

Once I saw rt.jar

Can such a file take hours to scan?

 

yes
i suggest you to run a custom scan, logging all files to see the scan progress.

 

Your rt.jar is probably part of Java JRE/SDK. It is archive containing thousands of files. Anyway, it shouldn't take so long if everything works properly.

 

I've started a scan with logging, but it's now been stuck on the same rt.jar file for hours. Should I stop the scan? What will I learn from the log?

 

I get a lot of messages like this in the log:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.6.0_16\lib\rt.jar » ZIP » sun/util/resources/CurrencyNames_el_CY.class - decompression could not complete (possible reasons: insufficient free memory or disk space, or a problem with temp folders)

What does this mean?

 

It means AV is finding it hard to scan. Exclude it from scanning
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2152

 

This happens to dozens and dozens of files ... never had this problem with Avast.

 

this is most likley a problem with the permissions to c:\windows\temp.

Please delete the c:\windows\temp folder itself. - safe to do so.

then create a new folder, inside of c:\windows and call it "temp".

Ensure your account has full access to this folder using permissions, but it should do by default when you create the folder anyway.

RE-try the scan, it should not show any decompression errors, and therefore complete in the proper time.