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Virus disinfection

Imre Ament

Hi Everyone!

Sophos Antivirus free tool run on my Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS machine without any problem.
Today I receive a virus alert when I start notepad++ (after Wine was updated), it was a malware (below the details).
There is the first case to an alert, please help me to decide need any further 'to do' or not.

It is my tool version:
Copyright 1989-2020 Sophos Limited. All rights reserved.
Sophos Anti-Virus       = 9.16.2
Build Revision          = 2840711
Threat detection engine = 3.79.0
Threat data             = 5.79
Threat count            = 55856971
Threat data release     = 2020. okt. 13., kedd, 00:00:00
Last update             = 2020. nov. 12., csütörtök, 13:21:00 CET

It is the scan report after an all scan (sudo savscan /)
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>>> Virus 'Mal/Generic-S' found in file /snap/core/10126/dev/fd/4/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/syswow64/dpnsvr.exe
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193188 files scanned in 13 minutes and 16 seconds.
312 errors were encountered.
1 virus was discovered.
1 file out of 193188 was infected.
If you need further advice regarding any detections please visit our
Threat Center at: www.sophos.com/.../threat-center.aspx
End of Scan.

The disinfection was automatic? (not need to do it directly)
It is the fresh version of Sophos AV free tool?

Best Regards:
Imre



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    Hello Imre,

    first of all, it's up to date (the  Last Update  is current).

    The disinfection was automatic?
    If you do not use the -di or -remove option savscan merely reports the threat. Please note that Mal/Generic-S is a generic detection and the file in question is not necessarily a virus or infected.

    Christian

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