09-03-2006, 19:19
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Virus Found !!
AVG virus scanner has picked up a virus that is embedded in a zipped archive within sun java..............it wont allow me to heal/send to quarantine.............its showing up on my sons documents & settings, so Ive done a search and located the file. Any ideas how I can get rid of it? will it be ok for me to just delete the zipped file completely?? The virus is a worm/AgobotAAG ????????
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09-03-2006, 19:21
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Re: Virus Found !!
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AVG virus scanner has picked up a virus that is embedded in a zipped archive within sun java..............it wont allow me to heal/send to quarantine.............its showing up on my sons documents & settings, so Ive done a search and located the file. Any ideas how I can get rid of it? will it be ok for me to just delete the zipped file completely?? The virus is a worm/AgobotAAG ????????
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Just delete it. If needs be after you've done that, re install Java 
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09-03-2006, 19:23
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Re: Virus Found !!
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---------- Post added at 19:23 ---------- Previous post was at 19:22 ----------
Yep delete the file, and then ensure you also delete it from your recycle bin.
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09-03-2006, 19:27
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Re: Virus Found !!
Thanks very much, its deleted, always best to check I'm doing the right thing
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09-03-2006, 19:45
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Re: Virus Found !!
odd had a smiliar thing myself the other day
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10-03-2006, 13:16
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Re: Virus Found !!
it is probably a false positive. AVG and many other virus killers use something called Heurustic (spelling) checking, which means it looks for patterns that could be a virus within a file. Zip files are compressed. When you compress something you change the structure of it. That structure may then take on, bytewise, the pattern, or part of the pattern, of a virus in the virus killer's database and so the virus killer has a bit of a shout.
If the virus killer can't delete the virus it may be because Java is using the zip file at the time, or it is protected against deletion - so you would have to do a manual delete and change the properties.
So don't worry - this is a common problem and the zip file in the docs and settings for Java regularly gives virus killers the heebyjeebies.
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11-03-2006, 16:09
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Re: Virus Found !!
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Thanks very much, its deleted, always best to check I'm doing the right thing |
Also, Don`t forget to turn off System restore when you delete it!
Reboot the PC, then turn system restore back on again.( If you use it that is) 
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