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Reoccurring Mac OSX Mal/Iframe-V

Arcblade

I'm running the free Anti-Virus program, version 7.3.0C (threat detection engine 3.20.2, Threat data 4.66) on a Macbook with Leopard (10.5.8). I have a very stubborn piece of malware (Mal/Iframe-V) on my computer.

According to the program and reference material online, the problem is an .xml file that contains some malicious code.  I have repeatedly "cleaned up" the file, but it kept coming back.  I also tried manually deleting it twice. Nothing is working.  My computer is not hemorrhaging popups, but it is annoying.  Sophos pops up with an alert about it every hour or so.  

Help?  

Thanks in advance.  

By the way, someone should probably tell the documentation folks that Mal/Iframe-V's come for Mac now.  

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    Since the malware isn't terribly dangerous, I did a bit of prodding at the actual file.  

    It seems it's an RSS for a service I use.  The solution was to remove the RSS from my browser, then delete the file.  At this point, it hasn't come back.  I tried checking the RSS at the website, but it's broken at the moment.  Hopefully that means they're fixing it, but I can't be sure.  

    At any rate, problem solved.  

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    Since the malware isn't terribly dangerous, I did a bit of prodding at the actual file.  

    It seems it's an RSS for a service I use.  The solution was to remove the RSS from my browser, then delete the file.  At this point, it hasn't come back.  I tried checking the RSS at the website, but it's broken at the moment.  Hopefully that means they're fixing it, but I can't be sure.  

    At any rate, problem solved.  

    :1002973
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