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Clean Up 311 issues - Yikes!

MarkLMacMan

My Mac is only a year old and I haven't installed a lot of software, but Sophos has come up with no viruses but 311 issues. Here are the first few lines:

Using IDE files:

age-amut.ide age-amuy.ide age-amvg.ide age-amxe.ide age-amxg.ide age-amxo.ide age-amyb.ide age-amzj.ide age-amzs.ide

age-amzv.ide age-anaj.ide age-anbe.ide age-ancn.ide age-andn.ide age-andp.ide age-anei.ide age-anfa.ide age-angk.ide

age-angw.ide age-anhg.ide age-anhj.ide age-anhp.ide age-anhr.ide age-anht.ide age-anhw.ide age-anim.ide age-anip.ide

 

What does this mean??? A lot of the other issues have to do with mail, so maybe I shouldn't be too worried.

 

I've just upgraded to Yosemite and I thought it would be good to "clean up" my system. I've heard bad news about cleanmymac and don't know IF there is a reliable product I can use to reduce the number of issues.

 

Is Sophos being too careful?

 

Suggestions?

 

Thank you.

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    Hey, sorry for the slow reply on this.

    To answer your question - those .ide files are actually virus definition files, so nothing to be concerned about. 

    As for the "issues detected" you saw in the scan log - you can usually safely ignore these. Normally it's things like encrypted, corrupt or non-accessible files (say if you unplugged a removeable hard drive during the scan.) For more information on these, you can check out the short video below:

    Hopefully that helps, but let us know if you need anything else!

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