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Sophos - trojan detected, now what?

Avatar Mark Ford
Just run Sophos as Euan suggested and it returned up this: Troj/JSRedir-BV in a file named YouTube Message,html [not a comma].
I cleaned it up following the very clear instructions.
Do I now need to run a check on the Time Machine files? If so which ones I wonder.

Re: Sophos - trojan detected, now what?

Avatar Mark Ford
Well, Sophos must have gone on searching and a message has popped up saying that it has found the same trojan in the Time Machine backup. This time it says I have to remove it manually.

The path to it is: Vol/Ext WD TimeMachine 550GB/Backup.backup/Mark Ford's iMac/2012-06-01-0956/Lion/Users/Mark/Library/Mail Downloads/YouTube Message.html

Trouble is I can't find it!
Searching in the Finder I loose the trail after /Mark/
there it starts being different. /Library/Mail Downloads/YouTube Message.html are nowhere to be seen.
I'm stumped, can anyone offer a way forward please?

Re: Sophos - trojan detected, now what?

Avatar Steve Ryder
Mark,

This must surely reflect the fact that the User Library folder is invisible in Lion. You will have to try one of the tricks shown in http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?newsid=3293365 in order to see this folder, and then find the file which you wish to remove.

Re: Sophos - trojan detected, now what?

Avatar Derek Wright
This is interesting - on my Yahoo email address I have been receiving a lot of Youtube messages that have been trapped as spam and so not moved to the machine.

I also think that the Gmail spam filter has been trapping them as well.

Apologies for the thoughts

Re: Sophos - trojan detected, now what?

Avatar Mark Ford
Thanks Steve, I t does seem likely. I am busy backing up everything I can see to everywhere I have available because my machine is behaving badly (unrelated to this issue I think). When that is done I will see what I can find & report..
 
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