Virus Found on Drive - Need to Delete Files

I’ve just run a virus scan on my Mac and found that there are at least 2 infected files on my WD that need to be manually cleaned up. How can I get these off the drive? It would be great if I could delete some backups before a certain date, as these are very old files that I don’t even need anymore. I use Time Machine for backups. 

Hi envecreative, if the antivirus does not give you the option to delete the files, you need to do it manually.

When I try to manually delete the files, it tells me that it can’t do it. It’s duplicated across multiple backup folders.

Hi again, in your case I would try to contact apple support directly since you are using Time Machine. 

http://www.apple.com/support/