I had a virus on my iMac and used Dr. Wed's app to find and quarantine it, but I am having some problems because the virus was saved onto my FreeAgent GoFlex backup hard drive and I cannot quarantine this virus. Will this affect my computer in any way?

Pleas help with this problem. Also, Will one be able to salvage the back-up or should one just chuck-it.?

It would have been some form of malware, not a virus, as there are none for Macs. It's possible it was Windows only and won't affect a Mac, a false positive, or found using "heuristic" analysis (meaning, basically, an educated guess.) What was it called? Where did it find it? Was it in Mail?
I think Dr Web has only relatively recently moved from PC/Windows, where most of its resources have been and are still concentrated, into the Mac end of things. I'm not certain how much I would trust A-V from Dr Web to be highly accurate.

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