The alert in SkopeIT will always remain available in the UI as a historical event.
By default, the filter in 'Alerts' will filter on "Acknowledged: No" . Setting this alert to "Acknowledged" will hide it from SkopeIT (you can then also filter on Acknowledged: Yes if you want to look at previous acknowledged alerts)

You can then run a retrospective Scan (Policies -> API Data Protection -> Retroactive Scan (top right) -> Select any policy to start the scan:

This will force the API to run a new scan against your tenant. If the Malware is still present in the Cloud application, you should see a new alert (with a recent time stamp)
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
RT
Hey rthompson, thanks for the reply. That all makes sense and is what I expected. I guess the issue I'm running into is that in the malware view, I don't see a way to acknowledge the alert the way I do for compromised credentials. Are there specific permissions that need to be allowed to acknowledge malware alerts?
Actually I figured it out thanks.