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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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    OK managed to find a solution to this for anyone else struggling to manually delete the .null files.

    Apparently these .null files are another variant of the Flashback virus and the files are hidden as Finder/Time Machine thinks they're system files and hides them by default.

    All you need to do is switch on "show hidden files" in finder, which is detailled here:

    http://www.macworld.com/article/1051830/showallfinder.html

    I was then able to browse to the .null file in Time Machine, click on it then go actions->delete from all backups.

    Rerunning a full scan now just to make sure, but looks like it's sorted.

    :1006235
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    OK managed to find a solution to this for anyone else struggling to manually delete the .null files.

    Apparently these .null files are another variant of the Flashback virus and the files are hidden as Finder/Time Machine thinks they're system files and hides them by default.

    All you need to do is switch on "show hidden files" in finder, which is detailled here:

    http://www.macworld.com/article/1051830/showallfinder.html

    I was then able to browse to the .null file in Time Machine, click on it then go actions->delete from all backups.

    Rerunning a full scan now just to make sure, but looks like it's sorted.

    :1006235
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