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Sophos Anti-Virus Mac query

Hi there,

I'm running Sophos Anti-Virus in Mac OS 10.6.6

It has detected a threat (Mal/Phish-A) which seems to be on my Time Machine drive. I tried to clean up the threat but I get:

Cleanup of the threat was not successful. You must clean it up manually.

The path to the threat is so long that it is abbreviated in the Sophos window:

/Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/…/47790/2/www.standardbank.co.za.html

In other words the "..." prevent me from finding the exact location of the threat.

I did a search for the enclosing folder in the latest backup, and found the original threat. I did a scan and it says "Open Quarantine Manager" which then instructs me to clean up manually. So, it seems I'm in a loop....

How do I get rid of the threat? In other words, how do I "clean this up manually"? 

Any suggestions?

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  • I am in the process of installing the same AV product.

    Can you explain in more detail how to remove threats manually as I read your post but don't even know where to start in finding files etc. I do have a time machine set up  right now I'm showing about 8 threats with 

    Troj/JavaDl-AZ  being the most common.

    Frustrating as I bought a MAC under the perception that there were no security issues as many do.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can offer as I feel like this is way over my head

    :9777
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  • I am in the process of installing the same AV product.

    Can you explain in more detail how to remove threats manually as I read your post but don't even know where to start in finding files etc. I do have a time machine set up  right now I'm showing about 8 threats with 

    Troj/JavaDl-AZ  being the most common.

    Frustrating as I bought a MAC under the perception that there were no security issues as many do.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can offer as I feel like this is way over my head

    :9777
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