I am using Sophos home edition 8 and this is the first time Sophos has found anything on my computer.
It has discovered Troj/BredoZp-RT on my system. I do not know how it got there and the sophos web site says it is a windows virus.
However Sophos said it could clean this up but after 12 hours, the 'cleaning up ' message was still running. So I looked around on the Forum and concluded that the problem related to Time Machine.
I then disconnected the firewire drive containing Time Machine and did a local scan on the internal hard drive. There was the trojan again but this time cleanup worked almost immediately.
So then I reconnected the Time Machine and scanned that. As expected, the threat has got on to Time Machine. Sophos said it can clean it up so I tried gain. However an hour has gone by so far with it still cleaning and I am beginning to have my doubts.
So my question is this: Will Sophos eventually remove all instances of the Trojan or should I crash out of the cleanup and just ignore the problem expecting Time Machine to delete it as and when affected backups get auto deleted? Or as a last possibility should I reformat the Time Machine drive and start lit over again?
Advice would be much appreciated.
From what I have read so far, I am not at all clear how to safely delete the affected backups manually.
JJ
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