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DELETING A THREAT MANUALLY - FINDING THE THREAT

colettenorris

Whenever I do a full scan, Sophos finds the same two threats which need to be manually removed.  The trouble is I can't find the location folder of these threats as whenever I search for the filename on my mac they just can't be found.

Does anyone know of a way I can find the path to where these threats are located so I can manually remove them?  

Thanks

Colette     :smileyvery-happy:

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    whmagill wrote:
    4- Now that I've looked at this scan log, I see why you don't tell people that it exists.... you'd have to explain all the messages found in the log, such as: 

    Corrupt file: ... (most seem to be .zip files, but also a couple of zhtml, rar, Z formats)

                          Interestingly, I know what all these files are and in most cases haven't touched them for ages, implying that A) they might really be

                          corrupt or B) they are from "ancient" versions of compression programs.

    Exploring the corrupt files has been interesting.  Several of them are ".doc" files ... from ancient versions of word. (probably circa 1997).

    Word:Mac 2008 could read and convert (i.e. suck the text out of them, but not format them) however, there were also several which Word:Mac 2008 could not read at all. 

    I can read the documents via emacs and they are clearly MSWord documents, but not knowing Word formats, I don't know what versions.

    Now to tackle the zip files.

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    whmagill wrote:
    4- Now that I've looked at this scan log, I see why you don't tell people that it exists.... you'd have to explain all the messages found in the log, such as: 

    Corrupt file: ... (most seem to be .zip files, but also a couple of zhtml, rar, Z formats)

                          Interestingly, I know what all these files are and in most cases haven't touched them for ages, implying that A) they might really be

                          corrupt or B) they are from "ancient" versions of compression programs.

    Exploring the corrupt files has been interesting.  Several of them are ".doc" files ... from ancient versions of word. (probably circa 1997).

    Word:Mac 2008 could read and convert (i.e. suck the text out of them, but not format them) however, there were also several which Word:Mac 2008 could not read at all. 

    I can read the documents via emacs and they are clearly MSWord documents, but not knowing Word formats, I don't know what versions.

    Now to tackle the zip files.

    :1001993
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