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I'd rather not delete the entire backup if possible. I've identified the infected files in the backup, and I'm looking for a way to take care of those individually. I do thank you for your suggestion...it may come to deleting the entire backup if there is no way to deal with the individual files.
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I'd rather not delete the entire backup if possible. I've identified the infected files in the backup, and I'm looking for a way to take care of those individually. I do thank you for your suggestion...it may come to deleting the entire backup if there is no way to deal with the individual files.

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From the link: &nbsp;<i>&quot;Also, when using the Actions menu, with a file or folder selected, there is an option to delete all instances of the file/folder from all backups.&quot;</i><br />
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Although I've not tried it myself I read that as saying you could selectively delete files/folders from all your Time Machine backups... 
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From the link:  "Also, when using the Actions menu, with a file or folder selected, there is an option to delete all instances of the file/folder from all backups."

Although I've not tried it myself I read that as saying you could selectively delete files/folders from all your Time Machine backups...

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Wait, I think I misread the article. I'll give it a try.
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Wait, I think I misread the article. I'll give it a try.

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I'm working on a Mac computer that has become infected with various rouge AV trojans (MacProtector, for one). Sophos did a good job of cleaning up the computer, but it cant clean the backups created by Time Machine. I've tried to manually delete them, but I get an error saying Time Machine backups cant be modified. How do I get those infected backups cleaned?
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I'm working on a Mac computer that has become infected with various rouge AV trojans (MacProtector, for one). Sophos did a good job of cleaning up the computer, but it cant clean the backups created by Time Machine. I've tried to manually delete them, but I get an error saying Time Machine backups cant be modified. How do I get those infected backups cleaned?

Virus problem on a Mac

Mac OS X is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers. OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C providing user interface and application-level services.

Mac OS X

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.