the threats are troj/phish-bn, troj/bredo-UM, mal/bredozp-D, mal bredozp-b, mal/phish-A, mal/generic-S, mal/inject-CEE
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
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Sophos should give you a list of infected files. Go to the external disk and remove them manually. They don't affect to OS X, but you might infect other computers
If they're on a Time Machine drive, the Finder won't let you remove them.
SeeTime Machine - Frequently Asked Question #12 for a way to do it.
They all seem to be in a deletd mail folder , within the mail folder which i can't locate on my time machine star wars thing.
I have searched for the file by name and also cant find it under given date?
any suggestions
Apple hides your ~/Library folder. 😟
From a Finder menubar, select Go and choose the Library folder there.
Inside it is the Mail folder. The files should be down inside the folder structure. Enter Time Machine from the Mail folder to find them.
the library file is not listed under go and if i seach for it says it does not exist?
Sorry, I left out Press the Option key while selecting Go . . . 😟
Apologies -- it's late here . . .
no problem, thanks for your hlp, whats the option key? i think we might call it seomething else?
Alt/Option, to the left of the Command key.
Note that these are not Mac threats, so they're doing you no harm. Now, if you were to restore those email messages from your backup and then send those messages to a Windows user, that could be a problem... But what are the chances of that happening? I would just let Time Machine get rid of them when it eventually fills up the drive and starts deleting old stuff, unless it's really bothering you to leave them there.
i have recently run sophos and it has found some malware and trojans on my time machine, but is unable to remove them, do i need to do it manually or does it nor matter since it is on my external drive?
