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Can't clean up Mal/Phish-A

Randolph
Sophos Anti-Virus is reporting the Mal/Phish-A threat on my Mac, but when I try to clean it up, or even to locate it, no location is given, and cleanup always fails. Any ideas? Sophos Anti-Virus for Macintosh Version 7.3.8 Threat detection engine: 3.28.1 Threat data: 4.74 Release date: February 6, 2012 Protects against 3316504 threats
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    Digging into the Sophos log, I find the following:

    com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar
com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar

     The MRJPlugins are archived from 2002 and 2003 and no longer used--I don't think they're a threat. Besides, I've been running Sophos AV for over a year, and I've never had a whisper of a problem. Why now?

    Any advice on finding the problematic files and removing them would be helpful, as would an explanation of the Mal/Phish-A threat.

    :21691
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    Digging into the Sophos log, I find the following:

    com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar
com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Encrypted file: /Registration List.xlsx
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: 
com.sophos.intercheck: Corrupt file: /MRJPlugin.jar

     The MRJPlugins are archived from 2002 and 2003 and no longer used--I don't think they're a threat. Besides, I've been running Sophos AV for over a year, and I've never had a whisper of a problem. Why now?

    Any advice on finding the problematic files and removing them would be helpful, as would an explanation of the Mal/Phish-A threat.

    :21691
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