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Troj/Bredo-ACC-Sophos warnings coming up 8-10 times a day!

jodyjoy

Since the past couple of weeks Sophis has popped up a warning about the Troj/Bredo-ACC virus and it is always in a different path/place. Since I have Sophos set to automatically clean up the threat, it disappears within a couple of seconds. I ran a complete scan of the HD and backup HD with nothing coming up. Yet this is continuing. The last position of the bit was in my Agile 1Password folder. I'm running OS 10.7.4 with the latest Sophos.

What in the world is this creepy trojan thing and why won't it go away?

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    Thank you for the suggestions, however I had already checked that page. It is for Windows, this is a Windows-based Trojan and I'm on a Mac. The instructions for removing malware from a Mac do not apply in this case BECAUSE THE THREAT DISAPPEARS FROM THE WINDOW. Please  focus on the issue that is happening which is:

    1. Sophos pops up identifying the Troj/Bredo-ACC virus. 15+ times a day and in DIFFERENT locations.

    2. It disappears from the Sophos main window in 6-7 seconds. 

    3. If I am quick enough to unlock the lock icon and select "Clean Up Threat", Sophos goes into action, keeps running, nothing happens (after 20 minutes of letting it run) and I have to Force Quit Sophos.

    4. Troj/Bredo keeps popping up in different locations. Mail, my Library, etc. basically in different parts of the system.

    Since this is a Windows malware, is there something about the Mac version of Sophos that just doesn't know how to clean it up? If it disappears from the window I have no time to note the full path to go in and locate the item manually.

    Do you have other suggestions?

    :1010212
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    Thank you for the suggestions, however I had already checked that page. It is for Windows, this is a Windows-based Trojan and I'm on a Mac. The instructions for removing malware from a Mac do not apply in this case BECAUSE THE THREAT DISAPPEARS FROM THE WINDOW. Please  focus on the issue that is happening which is:

    1. Sophos pops up identifying the Troj/Bredo-ACC virus. 15+ times a day and in DIFFERENT locations.

    2. It disappears from the Sophos main window in 6-7 seconds. 

    3. If I am quick enough to unlock the lock icon and select "Clean Up Threat", Sophos goes into action, keeps running, nothing happens (after 20 minutes of letting it run) and I have to Force Quit Sophos.

    4. Troj/Bredo keeps popping up in different locations. Mail, my Library, etc. basically in different parts of the system.

    Since this is a Windows malware, is there something about the Mac version of Sophos that just doesn't know how to clean it up? If it disappears from the window I have no time to note the full path to go in and locate the item manually.

    Do you have other suggestions?

    :1010212
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