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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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  • Hi. These instructions are very clear. But unfortunately Spotlight cannot find the folder with the correct number (in my case 

    239358) on the Mac itself. So I don't know how to proceed. There's another Malware that is directly in the Downloads folder of my Time Machine back-up, and obviously I can't delete the Back-up folder. So I'm unsure how to proceed in both cases. Any suggestions?

    :10505
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  • Hi. These instructions are very clear. But unfortunately Spotlight cannot find the folder with the correct number (in my case 

    239358) on the Mac itself. So I don't know how to proceed. There's another Malware that is directly in the Downloads folder of my Time Machine back-up, and obviously I can't delete the Back-up folder. So I'm unsure how to proceed in both cases. Any suggestions?

    :10505
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