Basically, I had some latency problems, so I went to pingtest.net to check it out. Chrome then told me that Java was blocked because it was out of date, so I went ahead and updated. MSE immediately detected an exploit, which I removed at once. I then ran a quick scan on MBAM, which picked up 21 infected objects, which I all removed. I then rebooted in safe mode and I am now running a full scan, just to be sure. I also uninstalled Java and removed all the temporary files.
My concern now is that I have to reinstall Java later. I checked my history, and I can see that I did download the update from the official Java website, so now I don't know if I can trust the official website anymore.
How am I going to install Java without getting infected again?
[editline]22nd August 2012[/editline]
Actually, MSE didn't detect the exploit until I clicked the Chrome prompt allowing Java to run on Pingtest afterwards. I may actually have gotten infected by pingtest instead. Hm.
Strange, it's possible that an earlier infection infected your Java and your anti-virus is reading that it came from that.
If it gets really bad, back up important files in safe mode and do a clean install.
I'd suggest doing a clean install every 2-4 years.
My computer appears to be clean now. I ran a full scan during the night in safe mode, which picked up a trojan, which probably dropped all the spyware I found with the quick scan earlier. I think it was pingtest that infected me, seeing that it has had problems with malware in the past, but just to be safe, I am going to download and install Java with Sandboxie and NoScript, and run a quick scan afterwards.
I recommend you all stay away from pingtest.net for a while.
IT BEGINS
just turn off java
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