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virus name

I made a mess: I was wandering around internet when Sophos detected a virus in the cache. As quickly as possible I deleted the cache, unfortunately in the confusion the virus name has disappeared and i don't remeber it. So I run a check on the whole Mac and it came out as free of viruses. My question is: how can I recover the name of the virus so that I can be sure it has been deleted? Thanks for the answer.

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0 lex over 13 years ago

You should be able to find the name of the file in your log file. The log file can be found under /Library/Logs/Sophos Anti-Virus.log.
HTH,
Alex
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0 Yurika over 13 years ago

Thanks. I think i have found it: Threat: 'Exp/MS04-028' detected in /Users/belor/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/wy7ah1ge.default/Cache/0/F1/BCBD4d01 What is it?
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0 Agile over 13 years ago

It's a JPEG GDI+ exploit for Windows: "Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution (833987) "
Yes, you heard that right: unpactched Windows computers can get infected by viewing a JPEG image in a web browser.
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0 Yurika over 13 years ago

Thanks ( a late thanks but whatever). I don't have any of the programs listed there and since the antivirus doesn't detect anymore I guess that's it. Thanks again.
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