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MacBook DAME virus. Infected kcn-dump.bin? How do I fix it?

I opened my macbook and Sophos Free Mac Edition came up with a threat called DAME. It said that the kcn-dump.bin was infected. What do I do? It is somewhere in the /private folder. There is no option to clean it up, it says it must be cleaned up manually. However, I restarted my computer, and the threat is no longer coming up. What is this? Has it moved to somwehere else? How could I have gotten this? How do I clean it?

this is the exact path its in: /private/var/db/kcm-dump.bin

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0 QC over 13 years ago

Hello rhc9,
minor correction: it is kcm-dump.bin (as spelled correctly in the path but twice wrongly).
It's probably a false positive. Has it disappeared from the Quarantine Manager or is it still there? If you navigate to /private/var/db/kcm-dump.bin and you are still getting an alert please see Submit samples of nasty files to Sophos at Sophos FreeTalk (which BTW has a dedicated forum for Mac HE).
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0 QC over 13 years ago

Hello rhc9,
minor correction: it is kcm-dump.bin (as spelled correctly in the path but twice wrongly).
It's probably a false positive. Has it disappeared from the Quarantine Manager or is it still there? If you navigate to /private/var/db/kcm-dump.bin and you are still getting an alert please see Submit samples of nasty files to Sophos at Sophos FreeTalk (which BTW has a dedicated forum for Mac HE).
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