Mac OS X 10.6.8 - Can't remove SophosUpdate Packages/Folders on Desktop Every day a new "SophosUpdate" folder/package will appear on my desktop (see screenshot).

When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button.  When I drag them to the eject button nothing happens.  Also nothing happens when I right click one of them and select "eject".

The only thing that got rid of them once was starting up in safe mode but they keep coming back after that.

Does anyone know what I can do?  I'm stuck.
When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button.


This is a huge clue, because it indicates that this is a mounted volume (presumably a mounted image of the update package) and not an actual folder in ~/Desktop.

If you enter mount or diskutil list at a terminal prompt, does anything called SophosUpdate show up? If you see one or more of these listed, you should be able to unmount it with sudo diskutil unmount force /dev/diskN where N is the disk number. Alternately, sudo diskutil unmount force "/Volumes/Volume Name" has the same effect.