I noticed that a scan which ordinarily takes a few minutes was actually up to 15 minutes before I noticed. I tried it again and again, rebooted, the whole-9. Long story short, it's stalling when it gets to the same file which is included in the software for my Brother label printer.
It only started doing this about a month ago. Initially I uninstalled the printer to run the scan, which it did perfectly. Trouble is, I need that printer. I reinstalled the printer software and the malware scan stalls on that darn file again.
I was hoping that this would have become known to you guys from other inputs but seemingly not.
See attached image. Same file every time.