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grubbymitts · 10-03-2006, 13:16

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.

10-03-2006, 13:16	#6
grubbymitts cf.geek Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 516	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.