Be Thorough. . .

[Donn]

So I'm sitting here with some time to kill and I thought, aha! good time to update the defenses. So I update, Adaware, Spybot and ASqrd. NOD32 updates itself continously, so that's a given.

Ok, I get done updating, and I start running A Sqrd. Right in the middle of ASqrd NOD jumps up with a virus warning, :eek: which wasn't actually a virus, it was and Alexa file, but this happened twice right in the middle of running ASqrd. (Hrumph!)

So I finish ASqrd and run (updated) Adaware. Clean. Then I run Spybot-default:

Hot links 4 entries
Advertising.com 25 entries
Ave A inc. 1 entry
Bdle click 1 entry
HitBox 4 entries
Media Ples 1 entry

I have no idea where I get this stuff. . .

Spybot advanced: clean

thorough . . . .that's the way to be.

[PrntRhd]

What Java are you using? (Some of this stuff loads with Java.)

[Donn]

I checked for an update the other day when Pop Pop was mentioning it--it said I have th lastest version. . .J2SE, build 1.5.0-b64.

[pop pop]

Sounds like it wasn't off base but NOD32 can be quick on the trigger, in my short experience "trialing" it. One of the things I saw was that whenever (and I mean EVERY TIME) I ran a TrojanHunter scan it would declare one or more of the files created in /temp during the scan as "Potential Viruse(s)". They were always the same "potential" type but always different names. No harm, I just deleted them. No other AV app I have used or tried showed this "bug". I could leave them there and run any other AV and malware scan including an online virus scan and it would be clean. Yes, I adjusted all settings including heuristics. NOD just doesn't like what TH creates during a scan.

[Donn]

I've had NOD32 now for 3 months I think, and it never gave me a read on Alexa files, and I have found them through SpyBot before. These were both in W32, so perhaps it depends on the file. I was more impressed with the fact that it over-road A-Sqrd while it was running and just jumped and posted that big-red-eye screen on top of the A-Sqrd display.

[PrntRhd]

Donn,
Just a quick note, Sun just updated Java 5 but the program will not update from the console. I updated by deleting prior Java versions and then went to that same download site and current version shows 1.5.0_01-b08.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

[Donn]

PrntRhd--

I take it that is one of the first two dnlds on that page? I don't actually see anything labeled 1.5.0. . .

[PrntRhd]

No, it is down the page under "download J2re", just above Documentation bar.

[Donn]

Ok, the one above the Docvumentation bar reads :

JRE 5.0 Update 1 includes the JVM technology

J2SE Runtime Environment allows endusers to run Java application

Download JRE


It doesn't indicate J2 R E, just J2 S E, I take it that was a typo. . .?

[PrntRhd]

Sun has all sorts of naming issues.
J2SE means Java 2 Standard Edition, they said they were going to stop using the J2RE name but they use it on the site for the new download.
The version is 1.5.0_08 but they call it Java 5.
Go figure
:rolleyes:
While you are updating,
SpywareBlaster updated again.

[Donn]

well I'm back to the house sitting locale, so I won't be back to the hacienda til later this week, but thanks, I'll update then. .