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Sophos Anti-Virus Mac query

musos

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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    Spotlight is an intentionally stupid creature. By default, it doesn't allow you to search in many areas that Apple considers to be sensitive.

    Do this:

    Open a Find window (Command-F)

    Click on the + button (far right) and a new set of buttons will apear.

    Click-hold the first (left) button to get a menu and scroll down and select Other. A window will appear.

    Scroll down to "System files" and check the box next to it. This will keep it in the menu from now on.

    Click OK

    Now click on the same button and select System files.

    Click on the next button and choose "are included"

    Now Spotlight should search everywhere, and will probably find the stuff you're looking for....

    Also, see my post above about how to delete files from Time Machine itself.

    Open your Downloads folder.

    Enter Time Machine.

    Go back in time until you find the offending files. They will be there somewhere.

    :10529
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    Spotlight is an intentionally stupid creature. By default, it doesn't allow you to search in many areas that Apple considers to be sensitive.

    Do this:

    Open a Find window (Command-F)

    Click on the + button (far right) and a new set of buttons will apear.

    Click-hold the first (left) button to get a menu and scroll down and select Other. A window will appear.

    Scroll down to "System files" and check the box next to it. This will keep it in the menu from now on.

    Click OK

    Now click on the same button and select System files.

    Click on the next button and choose "are included"

    Now Spotlight should search everywhere, and will probably find the stuff you're looking for....

    Also, see my post above about how to delete files from Time Machine itself.

    Open your Downloads folder.

    Enter Time Machine.

    Go back in time until you find the offending files. They will be there somewhere.

    :10529
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