Dunash

Back in the dim and distant past I too caught java viruses, and like you, my anti-virus software at the time (Norton AV 2003) didn't pick them straight away.

I found that these viruses were compressed, like in a zip file, and inert, i.e. inactive, and seemingly waiting for some sort of outside signal to wake them up. I found them by running Ad-Aware, which temporarily open the viruses compressed files, and at that point my AV software could see the viruses and stop them from doing any damage. However, once Ad-Aware had scanned these compressed viruses and they became inert again my AV software could no longer see them.

So, eventually, I noted where these compressed viruses where, by checking my AV logs, and then manually deleted them.

Now, I use Norton AV 2005 which scans everything, even web-pages and compressed files, as they come into my computer. So I no longer suffer from hidden compressed viruses planted in various web-pages on the internet.



UK Bob