Help! Sophos popup leads to generally useless computer...

Hi all! I have a pretty strange situation going on on my parents' computer.
My mom claims that she didn't install Sophos (an anti-virus program) on her iMac, yet when she logged onto the computer today, a window saying "Threat detected by Sohpos Anti-Virus" popped up. I closed it, and it continued to pop up. I then deleted the Sophos app from Finder. I then tried to open Safari, and a window came up saying "You can't use this version of the application Safari with this version of Mac OS X. You have OS X 10.6. The application requires 10.6 or later," which made very little sense to me. I got the same notification for the Mail app, and various other applications. When I tried to open Disk Utility, I got the same error. I then restarted the computer in Internet Recovery Mode, and repaired the disk and its permissions. Still nothing. I then rebooted in Safe Boot, and I didn't get the Sophos popup, but the computer refused to connect to the Internet, claiming there was no airport card installed.
The virus detected by Sophos is "mal/nix-A," which when I looked up, apparently usually comes from a certain email. I looked through my mom's email on my computer, and couldn't find anything fishy. I'm very confused by what's going on, and my parents' computer is essentially useless as of now. Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!

actually i believe it is part of the installation disc. this article talks about it a little. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2956
but anyways, WOW! my computer is on crack... after trying everything i could think of for the last couple of days, i decided not to touch it tonight after i got home from work, instead i got on here to write apple a message asking for help, and while i was writing that message i decided i should turn the computer on to make sure i had everything it was saying word for word.... and when i got to destination selection, its allowing my hard drive now! which is weird, cause i didn't do anything different to it, and i didn't touch it before work and it didn't work last night. odd. but it is still installing as i type this.... hopefully no install problems....
anyways, i thank you all for your help and ideas. they were much appreciated.
and on a final note, i am going to leave this thread as unsolved, because i did not actually find out what the problem was. however i believe that the "volumecheck tool error" lies with the install disc.

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