quarantine manager sophos

If you click on the names, it will take you to the detailed descriptions of the threats:

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Troj~JSRedir-BV/detailed-analysis.aspx

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Mal~Phish-A/detailed-analysis.aspx

The detection in our free product is the same detection used across our enterprise product line, and ties into our analysis for our anti-spam and web control products as well.  Because of this, we detect a number of threat variants that are not Macintosh-specific, and many that don't even affect Macs.

In this case, Mal/Phish-A indicates you've received an email with known phishing content (a phish is when an email pretends to be from someone you trust, to get you to do something you wouldn't normally do) and Troj/JSRedir-B indicates that you've visited a website with known malicious Javascript redirect code on it that attempts to load a page that will try to load malware onto your computer (most likely the attempt and the malware won't work, as most is aimed at Windows computers, but there is a growing amount of Mac exploits and malware to be found at the end of these redirects as well these days).

So what's happened is that SAV has found the items that could expose you to malicious software and blocked them from functioning on your Mac, so you can't even fall for the scam or download the malware.

This is useful information, but on my Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 the Sophos virus/spyware"Mal/Phish-A  warning appears everytime I turn on my computer.  Is there a way to delete the problematic files from my computer? Thanks

What file path is the detected file at?  Does the Quarantine Manager allow you to clean it?

Most likely, you just need to empty your spam folder, and possibly exclude your spam folder from Time Machine backups and delete call copies of it from within Time Machine.