Hi Jayfan41,
The malicious JAVA items that your CA AntiVirus has detected are not, in and of themselves, active virus/Trojan entities, in that they are not directly attempting to affect your operating system. Rather they are “exploits” that you have unknowingly downloaded from a website when accepting an ActiveX component. (For instance, when allowing an online game to be run actively or something similar.) Such “exploits” do open a vector (pathway) for additional malicious items (virus and spyware) to more easily invade your machine, and
need to be removed promptly to avoid these potentially more serious infections.
Manually remove these malicious applets from the JRE cache directory:
1.From the
Start button, click
Settings>
Control Panel
2. In the Control Panel, open the "
Java Plug-in Control Panel"
3. Select the
Cache Tab
4. Click the
Clear button inside the Cache Tab, which will clear your JRE cache directory
You can read more about this kind of detection and removal, here:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusin…s.aspx?ID=53959
NOTE: by clearing your JAVA Cache, you will also be removing various “good” ActiveX components that you may have knowingly accepted to facilitate legitimate online activities. This is not a problem, in that when you revisit those legitimate sites, you will simply be asked to “re-accept” their legitimate ActiveX component in order to continue accessing the website content. (Examples: Online antivirus scans by Housecall and Panda use ActiveX components to allow their scan to function on your machine.)
Next:
After clearing your JAVA Cache, Be sure that you have the most recent Updates for your JSE2 JAVA Runtime Environment, by downloading and installing JAVA Runtime Environment version 6, here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Next:
Install and Run both Spybot Search & Destroy v1.4, and Ad-Aware Personal SE version 1.06 and allow them to clean/fix all that they detect, particularly items detected and reported in Red. Download and Instruction links follow:
Spybot Search & Destroy –
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Ad-Aware SE Personal –
http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
Next:
Clear your Temporary and Temporary Internet files:
Start –
Run – (type)
cleanmgr.exe –
Enter (select Temporary and Temporary Internet files to be cleaned)
Next:
Run a couple of online AntiMalware Scans:
Panda Online Active Scan:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm
Trendmicro Housecall: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Next:
Report back with your results from the Online Scans and give an updated report about how your machine is running now.
Next:
The above steps
may have cleaned up the problem, and
will have accomplished a good preparation for obtaining a more specific analysis of your system and any further needed work in our Malware Removal Forum.
Since these JAVA “exploits” may have opened a vector for further malware infection…
please
Download and
Run HiJackThis, posting your Log over in our Malware Removal Forum.
Download HJT.exe here:
http://www.radiosplace.com
Create a permanent folder on your C:\ Drive for HJT so that backups can be saved.
–>Place your HJT.exe into a Folder like this: C:\HiJackThis\HJT.exe
Open HJT by double-clicking on HJT.exe
Run HJT by pressing “Do a system scan and save a log file”
Note: Do Not make any changes with HJT unless/until your receive advice from an Expert Advisor in the Malware Removal Forum.
Copy/Paste the NotePad HJT Log file into our Malware Removal Forum, for further analysis, here: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?showforum=27
Please be patient. The Malware Removal folks are all Volunteers and have a terrible work load, sometimes requiring a couple of days before you receive a response.
Best Regards.
