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Lots of "Cleanup Failed" for Time Machine files - just delete those backups?

cnixon

My work email account was hijacked by spammers, which was my first clue that something was wrong.  At my website host's recommendation, I installed and ran Sophos anti-virus.  I came up with 24 threats detected and clicked to clean them up.  All came back with "Cleanup Failed" messages, and all were from my Time Machine backup.  I watched the video on how to removed threats from Time Machine, but I can't find these threat files when I do searches in Time Machine.  Can I just delete a bunch of backups going quite a ways back, and will doing so remove the threats? Thanks in advance for any help.  

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    Hi newbie here. I've been going crazy with trying to find and delete malware zip files in my TM backcups. Sophos picks them up but for the life of me I cannot find them in the backups. They're email attachmetns and I thought I set my system to not hide the library folder etc. I've searched by general or exact file titles. I've gone to those specific dates, etc. Nothing. I've had Quarentine Manager open the files in Finder and - viola! - there they are. Of course I can't delete them as teir in TM. But again, I can't actually find them.

    I take it from your response that I have nothing to worry about and can simply clear my Quarentine Manager and not worry about it anymore?

    Just in case I've uploaded some files showing a bit of what I'm talking about.

    Best,

    Joel

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    FriedmanSophos.zip
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    Hi newbie here. I've been going crazy with trying to find and delete malware zip files in my TM backcups. Sophos picks them up but for the life of me I cannot find them in the backups. They're email attachmetns and I thought I set my system to not hide the library folder etc. I've searched by general or exact file titles. I've gone to those specific dates, etc. Nothing. I've had Quarentine Manager open the files in Finder and - viola! - there they are. Of course I can't delete them as teir in TM. But again, I can't actually find them.

    I take it from your response that I have nothing to worry about and can simply clear my Quarentine Manager and not worry about it anymore?

    Just in case I've uploaded some files showing a bit of what I'm talking about.

    Best,

    Joel

    :1016277
    FriedmanSophos.zip
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