How can I delete phishing emails in TimeMachine Backups

I am currently running Maverick, upgraded after a series of crashes and then nice people at Apple Customer Centre helped me to reset my iMac and to install Maverick. I am now also running MacKeeper, which is telling me that it is finding phishing emails (.emlx) files in my Time Machine backs ups. Do I need to delete anything or do I just continue to run scans and quarantine these fines as MK finds them?

Hi Kappy,
Thank you for the feedback, the file appears to be stuck in the library and the same email keeps being found by MacKeeper. Whilst I appreciate that you are not a fan of MacKeeper, it is doing a a job for me. In fact I was with Sophos but I think that this did not do a great job and hence my Mac got corrupted. I do not believe that Macs are not targeted, in fact far from it, I think that the hackers and distributors of viruses, spyware etc are pretty indiscriminate in the targeting!
I think I will stick with MK for the time being and see how it goes, it did clear alot of crap from my disk so for that I am thankful. On the negative side it has definietly slowed up my HD and web browsing experience, but the Mac is running and is relatively safe (for now).
Thanks

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