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Why is Sophos Anti-Virus reporting Sophos's own VDL files as viruses that should be deleted ?

Sophos is frequently reporting its own VDL files as viruses and recommending they be cleaned in the Quarantine Manager.

Why would Sophos ever do this ? Doesn't Sophos recognize its own virus definition files ? Why would it ever recommend Clean Up on these files ?

They show up in the Quarantine Manager.

Is this some kind of new virus that makes Sophos attack itself ?

I'm on Mac OX X Lion

Here is a log:

com.sophos.intercheck: 2012-08-05 22:32:35 -0400 Threat: 'Mal/Phish-A' detected in /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/VDL/vdl32.vdb
com.sophos.intercheck: Access to the file denied
com.sophos.intercheck:
com.sophos.intercheck: 2012-08-05 22:32:37 -0400 Threat: 'Troj/ObfJS-BK' detected in /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/VDL/xvdl17.vdb
com.sophos.intercheck: Access to the file denied
com.sophos.intercheck:

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0 Agile over 12 years ago

This appears to be a case of the wrong file being logged in the detection log -- the actual files will be email attachments.
See this thread: http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/Non-believer/m-p/7663/message-uid/7663#U7663
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0 davidO1 over 12 years ago

Ok, so Sophos is reporting the wrong path to its files. Isn't that a huge security risk that Sophos is giving out incorrect and false information about the files on my system. If Sophos is doing this, couldn't a hijacking hacker do the exact same thing ? How would I know the difference ?
Isn't this a huge defect ?
Is there an open defect on this ? If not, how do I open one about this severe issue ?
When do we expect this will be fixed ?
Thanks,
David
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