• I think I have an old, broken virus on my computer.
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All right, today Internet Explorer began opening itself to a page full of ads, so I've ostensibly got some sort of virus or piece of malware at work here. I deleted the Internet Explorer executable because I'm hip and edgy like that, but at the same time as this entity is opening Internet Explorer, it has been trying to access a .jar file somewhere. The Java Virtual Machine launcher will randomly open, followed by an error message: [code] Unable to access jarfile \\ozspot.in\puvlic\java.jar [/code] So I started my Linux VM to go to that address on the web, and ozspot.in just displays "This account was suspended." Further investigation of the address yielded no results. My guess is either the malware was thrown together and various bugs and typos (unless "puvlic" is a more common directory name than I thought) prevented it from achieving its original purpose, or the website it connects to has long been disestablished, leaving me with Java opening every 45 minutes or so to give me an error message. When I open the task manager when this happens, the process controlling it is just Java itself, running from Program Files\Java\jre6\bin. Any idea on how to hunt down the entity doing this?
Virus Scan.
If its mostly broken, a antivirus should take care of it.
I just got the same thing today. No idea where it came from but needless to say it spawns up internet explorer windows in the background and plays annoying adverts. If you try and kill iexplore.exe it still manages to spawn them. If anybody can find anything about this I'd be greatfully delighted.
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