Sleep mode on a Mac?

It's getting late and I'm getting ready to go to bed. Unfortunately, I'm running a virus scan that still has another good couple of hours left of it's scan. I really don't want my computer running all night. If I put the my Macbook Pro in sleep mode, will the scan continue to run?
Sleep mode on a Mac?
open system preferences and click on Energy Saver, set your sleepmode for or 2 or three hours and the display sleep for 15 minutes or so. Click on the schedule button and set your automatic shutdown for whatever time in the night you want your box to shutdown. Now go to bed and Mac will do the rest.
Sleep mode on a Mac?
When putting your Mac to sleep, the default mode is Hibernation Mode, which basically saves a snapshot of your machine and temporarily shuts everything down. So no, your scan will not keep going if you put it into sleep mode. Just schedule an automatic shut down or change the Energy Saver preferences so that it goes to sleep in a few hours.
Reply:The virus scan will likely be put on hold when it goes to sleep, and resume when it wakes up. Just to make sure, you could close the laptop for a few minutes and see if it has made any progress when you open it.





If you need to keep it awake, there is a little application called Caffeine that stays in your menu bar, you just click it to turn it on and off. You can download it here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/sy...





One last thing: Why are you running a virus scan on a Mac? It is very unlikely that your Mac will get a virus. The only virus I have ever gotten on a Mac was in a Microsoft (imagine that) Word document.