Plenty of trojans found in Sun Java cache

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Plenty of trojans found in Sun Java cache Moe Hair 07-02-2005
Posted by Wilbur Post on July 2, 2005, 4:39 pm
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> Where were you surfing that you acquired these trojans?

all over the joint! I just did a Trend Micro sysclean and it didn't find
anymore. I'm going to run another scan with AVG and see if Avast missed
any.

Why is it only in the Sun Java cache that these viruses are found?


Posted by David H. Lipman on July 2, 2005, 10:21 pm
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|
>> Where were you surfing that you acquired these trojans?
|
| all over the joint! I just did a Trend Micro sysclean and it didn't find
| anymore. I'm going to run another scan with AVG and see if Avast missed
| any.
|
| Why is it only in the Sun Java cache that these viruses are found?

It isn't. They can also be found in the Browser cache. However, they are more
often found
in the Java Cache.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm




Posted by kurt wismer on July 3, 2005, 12:46 am
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Wilbur Post wrote:
>
>>Where were you surfing that you acquired these trojans?
>
> all over the joint! I just did a Trend Micro sysclean and it didn't find
> anymore. I'm going to run another scan with AVG and see if Avast missed
> any.
>
> Why is it only in the Sun Java cache that these viruses are found?

java trojans would, realistically, be stored in the java cache along
with all the other java code you encounter while browsing...

--
"they threw a rope around yer neck to watch you dance the jig of death
then left ya for the starvin' crows, hoverin' like hungry whores
one flew down plucked out yer eye, the other he had in his sights
ya snarled at him, said leave me be - i need the bugger so i can see"


Posted by David H. Lipman on July 2, 2005, 5:51 pm
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| Should I just delete Sun Java and go with MS? I did a boot scan with Avast
| and it deleted about 10 trojans in various Sun Java documents and settings
| cache directories.
|
| What's the best way to clean it out other than to delete temp files in the
| Sun Java console?

They are either .CLASS files outside or .CLASS files inside Java Jars (ZIP
files).

No version of Java is really immune to getting them. The MS version is just a
modified
version of Sun Java. Your AV software should handle .CLASS files outside Java
Jars OK.
However, it may not handle .CLASS files inside Java Jars and the best way to
deal with Java
Script file infectors is to dump your caches.


1) Dump the contents of your IE cache -
Start --> settings --> control panel --> Internet options --> delete
files

2) Dump the contents of the Mozilla FireFox Cache { if you use FireFox }
Tools --> Options --> Privacy --> Cache --> Clear

3) Dump the contents of your Sun Java cache -
Start --> settings --> control panel --> Java applet --> cache --> clear
or
Start --> settings --> control panel --> Java applet --> general -->
settings -->
delete files

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm




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