I don’t think you have had an answer because the question is vague. These would help determine if your scan is taking a long time.

  • You don’t say if you are finding the scan long?
  • what your OS is? what your CPU is?
  • How much RAM you have?
  • what your scan settings are? How often do you scan?
  • how big the HDD/s are that being scanned?
    As you can see a little vague.

Things have changed and are changing and what was thought safe before may not be now. Not so long ago people thought .jpg files were safe, now that is not the case.

You can change the scan sensitivity to a Standard Scan instead of Thorough Scan and you don’t always have to archive files.

What ever you choose, you should run your Scan at a time when you are not busy on your computer, then it doesn’t really matter how long it takes.