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Threat Showed Up in Quarantine Manager, but Disappeared Before I Did Anything

I was browsing some websites when an alert from Sophos appeared saying that a threat had been detected. I opened the Quarantine Manager to clean up the threat, and I saw the listing for the threat in the QM, but then it disappeared from the list before I could do anything about it. All I caught about it was that the threat was listed as Virus/Spyware. I then ran a complete scan of all local drives (and cleared my browser's cache) and it came back saying no threats had been detected. Is it possible that the threat is still on my computer but found some way to hide itself? Or am I just being too paranoid?
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  • Troj/Invo-zip is a zip file attached to Zeus Bot laden emails (Windows-only).  So, if the file's not in your email cache and it disappears quickly, my guess is that you're using IMAP for email, and it's transient data coming from the server-side mail store.

    There's also a slight chance that it is detecting on temp files created during Zip compression/decompression, where the engine is detecting on a partial file -- and by the time the file is complete, it no longer looks like Invo-Zip.  Did you happen to be copying/creating a zip file at the time this detection went off?

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  • Troj/Invo-zip is a zip file attached to Zeus Bot laden emails (Windows-only).  So, if the file's not in your email cache and it disappears quickly, my guess is that you're using IMAP for email, and it's transient data coming from the server-side mail store.

    There's also a slight chance that it is detecting on temp files created during Zip compression/decompression, where the engine is detecting on a partial file -- and by the time the file is complete, it no longer looks like Invo-Zip.  Did you happen to be copying/creating a zip file at the time this detection went off?

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