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MAL/GENERIC-S

inveresk

Im running Sophos antivirus v 8.0.6 on Mountain Lion. It's detected a threat which it identifies as Mal/Generic-S which I've tried to clean up via Quarantine Manager without success. The programme simply runs endlessly. The path and filename are not identified so I have no idea where the problem file is located. 

I believe this is Windows malware but nevertheless I'd like to remove it. Any ideas how I do that?

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    inveresk wrote:

    Im running Sophos antivirus v 8.0.6 on Mountain Lion. It's detected a threat which it identifies as Mal/Generic-S which I've tried to clean up via Quarantine Manager without success. The programme simply runs endlessly. The path and filename are not identified so I have no idea where the problem file is located. 

    I believe this is Windows malware but nevertheless I'd like to remove it. Any ideas how I do that?

    Mal/Generic-S is the designation given to any item marked bad in a Live Protection lookup -- it could be anything.  Without an actual file to tie it to, cleanup can't take place, and identifying if it's a legitimate detection is not possible.  If you restart your computer, clear the detection from quarantine and re-scan, is the detection still there?

    My guess is that it's detecting a known-bad email attachment that has since been removed from your system (which is why there's no path).  There was a large run of Bredo yesterday that had some components detected as Mal/Generic-S.

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    inveresk wrote:

    Im running Sophos antivirus v 8.0.6 on Mountain Lion. It's detected a threat which it identifies as Mal/Generic-S which I've tried to clean up via Quarantine Manager without success. The programme simply runs endlessly. The path and filename are not identified so I have no idea where the problem file is located. 

    I believe this is Windows malware but nevertheless I'd like to remove it. Any ideas how I do that?

    Mal/Generic-S is the designation given to any item marked bad in a Live Protection lookup -- it could be anything.  Without an actual file to tie it to, cleanup can't take place, and identifying if it's a legitimate detection is not possible.  If you restart your computer, clear the detection from quarantine and re-scan, is the detection still there?

    My guess is that it's detecting a known-bad email attachment that has since been removed from your system (which is why there's no path).  There was a large run of Bredo yesterday that had some components detected as Mal/Generic-S.

    :1011226
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