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Quarantined file disappeared from the manager

doxsys
I'm running a scan on my entire hard drive using the Mac OS free edition. I had a warning pop up that a file was infected and quarantined. I opened the quarantine manager per instructions, which had one file in it. I highlighted the file, and when I clicked on the 'more details' button, the file disappeared. The scan is set to just log bad files (rather than move them or clean them up), so this is a bit disconcerting. The only thing I noticed about it was that it was called Info.plist. Any thoughts on whether this is something to worry about?
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    Evidently, the file in my FF cache folder is a real threat, although only for Windoze, so it's harmless to my Mac.

    Very odd that the other day Finder showed it to be an image, and later just a document. I'm wondering if I accidently viewed the wrong file in Finder the first time.

    Last night while running a system scan (including archives), Sophos identified another file as a threat, Mal/JavaGen-F. This program was included as part of free software on a Western Digital external drive I bought 4 years ago. I'm not really sure this should be listed as Viruses and Spyware on the Sophos website, but it is. From what I read during a quick search for MioNet, it is not a virus or spyware, although someone said that  "some malware camouflage themselves as MioNetManager.exe."

    Anyway, more to original topic of this thread is the fact that these threats are staying in the window, not vanishing, allowing me to see their location and decide how to handle them. Not sure what, if anything has changed, perhaps the files that vanished before were suspicious but weren't able to be identified as a known threat, so they were logged then rermoved from the window? 

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    Evidently, the file in my FF cache folder is a real threat, although only for Windoze, so it's harmless to my Mac.

    Very odd that the other day Finder showed it to be an image, and later just a document. I'm wondering if I accidently viewed the wrong file in Finder the first time.

    Last night while running a system scan (including archives), Sophos identified another file as a threat, Mal/JavaGen-F. This program was included as part of free software on a Western Digital external drive I bought 4 years ago. I'm not really sure this should be listed as Viruses and Spyware on the Sophos website, but it is. From what I read during a quick search for MioNet, it is not a virus or spyware, although someone said that  "some malware camouflage themselves as MioNetManager.exe."

    Anyway, more to original topic of this thread is the fact that these threats are staying in the window, not vanishing, allowing me to see their location and decide how to handle them. Not sure what, if anything has changed, perhaps the files that vanished before were suspicious but weren't able to be identified as a known threat, so they were logged then rermoved from the window? 

    :1006709
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