JAVA Virus Found - Trojan Horse (URGENT)

I used NAVCE to perform a virus scan on my system and it reported a virus found, trojan horse. Here's the report:
Scan type: Manual Scan
Event: Virus Found!
Virus name: Trojan Horse
File: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\file\Dummy.class-1012b178-3c3750b0.class
Location: Quarantine
Computer: SLEEP
User: Administrator
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine succeeded :
Date found: Fri Oct 24 00:51:03 2003
The folder that the trojan horse resides is a hidden file. Can anyone tell me what's happening? Preferably someone from Sun would like to explain?

forget it. You got that virus from some webpage. Besides, it shouldn't activate unless some moron has changed the defaults on yout windows comp. just delete it, don't lose yer sleep.

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AFTER INSTALLING A RECENT JAVA SOFTWARE UPDATE (TROJAN HORSE) UNABLE TO SCCESS SEVERAL BOOK MARKED PAGES. ANY SUGGESTIONS

After installing a recent java software update(trojan horse) have not been able to open several bookmarked pages.

Was this the Security Update that disabled Java in the Browsers?
If so & you need Java, just reverse these unchecks to checks...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5241?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=142064
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20turn%20off%20Java%20applets

Have some kind of virus or trojan horse -- dozens of spam messages are being sent out from my PC. Is there anything I can do?

The messages do not show up in my Sent folder. Many of them are sent to dead email addresses and the only way I know that this is happening is from the "failure to deliver" messages from the Mail Administrator.

General Malware SCAN for your System
* [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner]
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware]
* [http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363 TDSSKiller - AntiRootkit Utility]
* [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro]
* [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/MSE Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista/XP if you don't already have one.
Further information can be found in the [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]] article.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

New Trojan Horse Virus

First, I am aware that the Mac has never had a virus and is not readily suceptible to them due to the quantity of Macs in service and the complexity of the Unix format. However, I also realize that the word "never" is relative and no one knows what the future holds.
In light of the "apparent" new Trojan Horse Virus that has just surfaced, could someone answer the following questions for information only.
There is a question as to whether this is a Trojan Horse or a Virus. Has that been cleared up?
I have followed the discussions concerning the various virus programs for the Mac. There seems to be problems with all of them such that many are saying the problems do not justify installing these, in light of the low probability of a virus or trojan horse. There is also the question that is raised as to why some of these programs work great for some and poorly for others. One of these programs seem to surface more than others. It is CLAMX AV.
My questions concerning CLAMX AV is:
Does this program simply identify a virus or can it be configured to quarantine, or delete the virus completely?
If it will delete the virus, can this be done automatically in the background or is there some interaction that has to be done on the part of the user?
What primary issues concerning my Mac must be considered before installing the program?
Thanks
Herschel

There is a good guide to Leap-A at http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/16/leapafaq/index.php
If you want to see how easy or hard it is to catch have a look at http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/17/leapafollow/index.php
Prerequisites (even before you get to the point where you have to help it along its way by actually deliberately opening the offending file) involve using iChat over a Bonjour (not just internet) network under OSX10.4 while connected to someone infected with it.
THis is clearly not really going to be a significant issue in itself, though others may try to emulate its operations with "nastier" enhancements.
(Just by the way, Macs have had viruses etc in the past under earlier OS's. The last one I actually saw was on a machine running OS7.5 in the mid 1990's. It had arrived on the victim's machine on a floppy disc containing pirated software from an educational institution. Prior to the mid 1990's I saw three other incidences of virus infection on Macs - all on machines used in the education sector)
Cheers
Rod

If I have Trojan horse (or virus?), will clean install resolve it?

Answered what turned out to be a scam ad on craigslist for an Apple product and downloaded photos the scammer had sent of the supposed computer. I now find that, while I'm able to get to all other sites, when I put craigslist.com or craigslist.org into my browser, nothing happens. I feel like the scammer's photos had a virus or trojan horse to prevent me from going back on craigslist to post a warning of the scam. Luckily, just a couple of days ago I backed up all my data twice, on two separate drives -- so would a clean install resolve this? If so, how do I do such a thing? (Please explain in simple terms since I'm not a techie.)
Thanks!

I'm thinking your problem is something else, and that At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

New Trojan Horses

Last night, I made the mistake of downloading an app called "Wine" and "Winebottler". These are apps that allow Windows programs to be played on Macintosh without installing Windows. I ended up with 13 new OSX Trojan Horses on my Macintosh. These apps kept on installing add ons to the iTunes Store. I knew I was in trouble immediately, I guess, by instinct.I had also installed Wineskin for the same purpose, but I don't think that was the problem as I found no Trojan Horses associated with this app. I had my security set to download from App Store and Trusted Developers only. I am now going to upgrade my security to download from App Store only now, but I don't know for sure if that will help.
Luckily, I had Kaspersky on my Mac, and it kept on finding Trojan Horses on a full scan. I had firevault on and iCloud on. I am wondering now if my iCloud account is infected. I am currently erasing my whole hard drive and reinstalling. I will not turn on iCloud until I get some advice. For those that are unaware, I know we are in a cyberwar. I don't know where these apps originated, but I wanted the community to know this. I've used Macintosh since the first day it was available in 1984. I've never had troubles with viruses and Trojan Horses like this, except for two that were found by Kaspersky a couple of months ago and were easily found, isolated and disinfected. Not these. Most were easily disinfected: all but two. I had to restart the computer and Kaspersky got rid of them. Kaspersky is a great program, but I wasn't sure if it got rid of everything, which led me to erase and reinstall.
Please inform my about how secure iCloud is against attached viruses or should I delete my account.

etresoft wrote:
straycat23 wrote:
I downloaded from WineHQ.org.
I doubt that because WineHQ doesn't have any Mac versions of Wine available. They distribute Linux binaries and source. If you downloaded a Mac version, it must have come from somewhere else.
As soon as I downloaded it and the Winebottler, I knew I had problems.
Why?
I took your earlier advice: left OS10.9.1 in place and turned iCloud back on. I hope I made the right decision. I did not delete Kaspersky because OSX did not delete the Trojan or prevent it from being downloaded. Kaspersky did.
But you are in a catch-22 situation here. These forums are full of people reporting problems with computers and antivirus is a very common cause. By comparison, there are far fewer people reporting problems with trojans. Are these programs really trojans? And even if they are, would they cause as much trouble and be as difficult to remove as antivirus? I doubt it
As far as I can tell WineHQ must be a trusted developer, because that is how my computer is set as I previously stated.
I would definitely consider WineHQ to be trustworthy (more so than antivirus vendors) but they definitely do not have an Apple Developer ID that would enable them to distribute software past Gatekeeper. Someone malicious may have repackaged Wine, added trojans, and signed it with a Developer ID. The only way to address that problem is to identify where you got the software so that the illicit Developer ID can be revoked.
I did not download these programs to play games. That's for Millenials. I downloaded these because Windows is a disaster, and I didn't want to load Windows on my computer. There are Windows programs that there is no equivalent in Mac.
It doesn't matter why you downloaded them. If they are Windows programs, you are going to have to run Windows. Wine is a cool project, but very little software actually works on it.
I also deleted Adobe Flash Player as was advised in another thread. Now I can't see instructions in YouTube. Does the App Store have a recommended flash player to see You Tube?
Download Adobe Flash directly from Adobe and installer. Then download the Click2Flash Safari extension: http://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ so you can avoid Flash, if possible. If you ever get any Flash popup asking for an update, always close it - always. Then go to the Adobe Flash site yourself and see if there is an update and download it.
I downloaded the program from WineHQ. It's in my history. I went back and looked today. I don't think Linux has an iTunes version. I downloaded a program I didn't request that attached itself to iTunes. This is how I knew I had problems.
I appreciate all the advice: dismissive or not. It did give me confidence there's nothing wrong with my computer. I just don't have faith in Mac like I used to. I'm guessing that the trojans were not real, but I'm glad I had a device to delete the false positives, if for no other reason than it made me feel better. Any website can be attacked by hackers. Maybe that's what happened to WineHQ.

Trojan horse Dropper.Generic2.CKPW

AVG found Trojan horse Dropper.Generic2.CKPW when I downloaded the update to QuickTime. AVG can't delete or vault it.

Yeah, I think so. I ran AVG free AV/AS and it quarantined the Dropper2 trojan and the registry entry from the SysWoW folder and everything still works. I rebooted, ran iTunes, synced, rebooted again and everything still works with no sign of the virus. I called Apple yesterday wanting to know why I had to keep entering my account info and they wanted me to log in, change my password, then change it back. This might have been an honest attempt to solve my problem, but I wasn't born yesterday and I really see no reason for me to change my password and then change it back again. If I've hurt someone at Apple's feelings, well... boo hoo!!

Recent Trojan Horse Stories

I've been a Mac User for more than 5 years and I've never bought an Antivirus, however I've been seeing articles of Mac's getting something called a Trojan Horse now I'm kind of nervous that I will get it. Can anyone recomend a antivirus?

jnjaquez wrote:
I've been seeing articles of Mac's getting something called a Trojan Horse now I'm kind of nervous that I will get it. Can anyone recomend a antivirus?
(1) Debates about the distinction (if any) between Trojan Horses and viruses are, IMHO, best left to the specialists, who have the time to engage in them and the training to understand the arguments. For us, as average users, they don't matter that much. After all, if my bank account password was stolen, I couldn't care less if it was stolen by a virus, a Trojan Horse, or the frumious bandersnatch.
(2) The latest versions of Flashback installed themselves without any user interaction. They were not "invited" in any way; the user did not have to "download and execute something". Whether this means that Flashback is "no longer entirely a trojan", as Thomas A Reed puts in the page linked by shldr2thewheel, or that it's a backdoor (or whatever), leave the fun of arguing over it to others. We can just call it malware and be done with it.
(3) There are two problems with A/V software.
(a) Macs are a very small market compared to Win; moreover, (for whatever reason) Macs have been much less affected by malware. Consequently, it doesn't make business sense for any commercial A/V developer to put his A Team on developing Mac A/V software. And the products on offer show the signs of being developed by the B Team—by and large, they are intrusive, not very well programmed, and not very well tested.
(b) A/V software is only as good as the latest upate, and protects only against known threats. In the past five or six weeks, Flashback evolved constantly and fairly rapidly, while A/V updates in general didn't match the pace.
So, for A/V software, I'd go with BGreg's suggestion of ClamXav (which is not commercial, but a free Mac port of an open-source A/V engine). However, don't assume that, once it is installed, you are fully protected.
(4) A common thread in the last weeks of the Flashback soap opera has been the reverse firewall. Mac OS X has a built-in firewall (one that controls in-coming connections); but it doesn't have a reverse firewall (which controls outgoing connections). Some versions of Flashback self-immolated when they detected Little Snitch, a popular reverse firewall (Hands Off! is another); others were caught and blocked by Little Snitch. I'd say, this day and age, a reverse firewall is essential.
In short, what should you do?
Use your common sense (best and most useful tool).
Keep yourself informed. (The danger posed by Java vulnerabilities was fairly well known.)
Get a reverse firewall (Little Snitch or Hands Off!).
Install ClamXav.
Adopt good working habits, including using a standard (rather than admin) account for most of your work.
Back up, back up, and back up some more (eg, Time Machine). And always have an emergency boot device at hand.

Possible worm or trojan horse?

I got my powerbookg4 (panther) back from apple repair today and now when I open up Safari I get a message from my isp "Spam Alert: Your PC may be infected with a virus that sends out large amounts of spam. As such, your outbound email service has been temporarily suspended." Click below for more information" When you click you get another message that explains that a large volume of outgoing mail has been detected and that it is indicative of a virus or trojan horse. I can click on a button to go to a free location to check out my system. That sounds suspicious in and of itself, but if you go directly to my providers website, they also link to the same place. Additionally, that site doesn't check safari browser, mac osx.
So this is perplexing. How do I know if this is possible on my machine? I rarely use my provider email, and all my email accounts go through apple mail. I logged on to my son's mac to see if he got the same thing, hoping the provider was just sending out random messages but it didn't occur on his machine.
Advice? Thoughts? I do not have a virus protection program on my mac, but I do not visit suspicious sites, do not download from unknown sites, all my music is from itunes, etc. Is the a reputable site I can use to check out my mac?
Thanks

Hi Carole,
I would ignore the on-line warning, especially clicking on the links. No telling what type of spam they'll produce. If you have concerns, call your ISP directly.
While you can certainly pass on a virus/trojan horse, etc. through an e-mail, these type of items do not affect the Mac.
To date, no virus has been written for the Mac (there was a suedo virus written earlier this year - much ado about nothing). From your description, it seems your surfing habits are quite conservative. If true, then Virus software would be unnecessary.

Trojan Horse Virus

A little while ago, my macbook was very slow and I went into the Apple store and they recommended that I turn Norton Antivirus off. I did.
A few months later (now) I ran it just for the heck of it to see if it found anything - and it did. Two or three Trojan Horse malware files. Looking at Nortons descriptions, I think that they were (I located and deleted them) all PC based virus BUT, I am wondering:
1. I have Microsoft Office for Mac on my Macbook and I am wondering if those files might have been compromised by a PC virus?
2. I am assuming that if these files have been compromised there is nothing that I can do about retrieving that information as it could be anywhere.
3. If I have other PC based drives hooked up to my macbook wirelessly - were they vulnerable while I had these Trojan Horses on my Macbook?
Thanks.
A.

Don't always believe what Norton tells you. It is incompatible with OS X.
Norton Antivirus has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)
1. No
2. Need more details about what you call 'compromised'
3. Yes.
No viruses that can attack OS X have so far been detected 'in the wild', i.e. in anything other than laboratory conditions.
It is possible, however, to pass on a Windows virus to another Windows user, for example through an email attachment. To prevent this all you need is the free anti-virus utility ClamXav, which you can download for Tiger and Leopard from (on no account install Norton Anti-Virus on a Mac running OS X):
http://www.clamxav.com/
The new version for Snow Leopard is available here:
http://www.clamxav.com/index.php?page=v2beta
(Note: ClamAV adds a new user group to your Mac. That makes it a little more difficult to remove than some apps. You’ll find an uninstaller link in ClamXav’s FAQ page online.)
If you are already using ClamXav: please ensure that you have installed Apple Security Update 2010-005 and that your version of ClamXav is the latest available.
However, the appearance of Trojans and other malware that can possibly infect a Mac seems to be growing, but is a completely different issue to viruses.
If you allow a Trojan to be installed, the user's DNS records can be modified, redirecting incoming internet traffic through the attacker's servers, where it can be hijacked and injected with malicious websites and pornographic advertisements. The trojan also installs a watchdog process that ensures the victim's (that's you!) DNS records stay modified on a minute-by-minute basis.
You can read more about how, for example, the OSX/DNSChanger Trojan works here:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojanosxdnschanger.shtml
SecureMac has introduced a free Trojan Detection Tool for Mac OS X. It's available here:
http://macscan.securemac.com/
The DNSChanger Removal Tool detects and removes spyware targeting Mac OS X and allows users to check to see if the trojan has been installed on their computer; if it has, the software helps to identify and remove the offending file. After a system reboot, the users' DNS records will be repaired.
(Note that a 30 day trial version of MacScan can be downloaded free of charge from:
http://macscan.securemac.com/buy/
and this can perform a complete scan of your entire hard disk. After 30 days free trial the cost is $29.99. The full version permits you to scan selected files and folders only, as well as the entire hard disk. It will detect (and delete if you ask it to) all 'tracker cookies' that switch you to web sites you did not want to go to.)
A white paper has recently been published on the subject of Trojans by SubRosaSoft, available here:
http://www.macforensicslab.com/ProductsAndServices/index.php?mainpage=document_general_info&cPath=11&productsid=174
Also, beware of MacSweeper:
MacSweeper is malware that misleads users by exaggerating reports about spyware, adware or viruses on their computer. It is the first known "rogue" application for the Mac OS X operating system. The software was discovered by F-Secure, a Finland based computer security software company on January 17, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacSweeper
On June 23, 2008 this news reached Mac users:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/mac_trojan/
More on Trojans on the Mac here:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/63574.html?welcome=1214487119
This was published on July 25, 2008:
Attack code that exploits flaws in the net's addressing system are starting to circulate online, say security experts.
The code could be a boon to phishing gangs who redirect web users to fake bank sites and steal login details.
In light of the news net firms are being urged to apply a fix for the loop-hole before attacks by hi-tech criminals become widespread.
Net security groups say there is anecdotal evidence that small scale attacks are already happening.
Further details here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7525206.stm
A further development was the Koobface malware that can be picked up from Facebook (already a notorious site for malware, like many other 'social networking' sites like Twitter etc), as reported here on December 9, 2008:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7773000/7773340.stm
You can keep up to date, particularly about malware present in some downloadable pirated software, at the Securemac site:
http://www.securemac.com/
There may be other ways of guarding against Trojans, viruses and general malware affecting the Mac, and alternatives will probably appear in the future. In the meantime the advice is: be careful where you go on the web and what you download!
If you think you may have acquired a Trojan, and you know its name, you can also locate it via the Terminal:
http://theappleblog.com/2009/04/24/mac-botnet-how-to-ensure-you-are-not-part-of- the-problem/
As to the recent 'Conficker furore' affecting Intel-powered computers, MacWorld recently had this to say:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?email&NewsID=25613
Although any content that you download has the possibility of containing malicious software, practising a bit of care will generally keep you free from the consequences of anything like the DNSChanger trojan.
1. Avoid going to suspect and untrusted Web sites, especially p'orn'ography sites.
2. Check out what you are downloading. Mac OS X asks you for you administrator password to install applications for a reason! Only download media and applications from well-known and trusted Web sites. If you think you may have downloaded suspicious files, read the installer packages and make sure they are legit. If you cannot determine if the program you downloaded is infected, do a quick Internet search and see if any other users reported issues after installing a particular program. A recent example is of malware distributed through innocent looking free screensavers: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/malware-watch-free-mac-os-x-screensavers-bund led-with-spyware/6560?tag=nl.e589
3. Use an antivirus program like ClamXav. If you are in the habit of downloading a lot of media and other files, it may be well worth your while to run those files through an AV application.
4. Use Mac OS X's built-in Firewalls and other security features.
5. Stop using LimeWire. LimeWire (and other peer-to-peer sharing applications and download torrents) are hotbeds of potential software issues waiting to happen to your Mac. Everything from changing permissions to downloading trojans and other malicious software can be acquired from using these applications. Similar risks apply to using Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and similar sites which are prone to malicious hacking: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8420233.stm
6. Resist the temptation to download pirated software. After the release of iWork '09 earlier this year, a Trojan was discovered circulating in pirated copies of Apple's productivity suite of applications (as well as pirated copies of Adobe's Photoshop CS4). Security professionals now believe that the botnet (from iServices) has become active. Although the potential damage range is projected to be minimal, an estimated 20,000 copies of the Trojan have been downloaded. SecureMac offer a simple and free tool for the removal of the iBotNet Trojan available here:
http://macscan.securemac.com/files/iServicesTrojanRemovalTool.dmg
Also, there is the potential for having your entire email contact list stolen for use for spamming:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/technology/internet/20shortcuts.html?_r=1
NOTE: Snow Leopard, OS 10.6.x, offers additional security to that of previous versions of OS X, but not to the extent that you should ignore the foregoing:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/security/
Apple's 10.6.4 operating system upgrade silently updated the malware protection built into Mac OS X to protect against a backdoor Trojan horse that can allow hackers to gain remote control over your treasured iMac or MacBook.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/06/18/apple-secretly-updates
Finally, do not install Norton Anti-Virus on a Mac as it can seriously damage your operating system. Norton Anti-Virus is not compatible with Apple OS X.
And if you are using iPhone Apps you are also at risk of losing all privacy:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/03/hacker-claims-third-party-iphone-apps-can-tra nsmit-udid-pose-se/

TS1338 I have 4 Trojan Horse viruses on my external drive I use for Time Machine. My MacBook Pro hard drive is clean. I have eased the external drive 3 times using Disk Utility and it still has the 4 Trojan Horse viruses. How do I get rid of them. Wayne

I have 4 Trojan Horse viruses on my external drive I use for Time Machine. My MacBook Pro hard drive is clean. I have eased the external drive 3 times using Disk Utility and it still has the 4 Trojan Horse viruses. How do I get rid of them. I am using 10.8.3 Wayne

ksu62 wrote:
The infection names are: classload.jar-719ef6a5.zip
                                          classload.jar-5db452le31.zip
                                          ar3.jar-6ce3b2f-45l483f.zip
                                          classload.jar-lef99412-63bsd3fl.zip
Those look alot like file names and not infection names. I don't find any reference to anything like that on Norton or VirusTotal. Since you said these were Trojans, I would expect to see "Trojan" as part of the infection name.
".jar" files are executable Java applets. The random alpha-numerics would seem to indicate a cache file, likely from a browser with Java enabled. And we all know what ".zip" means.
Worst case is that you had Java enabled in a browser and were infected by one of the late variants of the Flashback Trojan over a year ago or one of a couple of other attacks using the same vulnerability but targetted against a small number of political sympathizers. Much more probable is that thes were Windows only Trojans. Hopefully you have a fully up-to-date OS X, including Java, and have disabled Java in all your browsers by now.

JAVA OPENSTR.A - VIRUS OR TROJAN???

Hi There,
I am a knowledgable home computer user, but I do not know anything about programming or in depth stuff.
Trend Micro's "House Call" virus scanner found the following file and reported it as a virus.
C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar\javainstaller.jar-3c936701-5768e0d4.zip javainstaller\InstallerApplet.class
I wonder if this file is perhaps a valid Sun Java file, but it has a "signature" similar to that of a virus or Trojan and hence was reported by House Call as a virus.
Could you please advise me?
Thanks very much for your help.
Sincerely,
Guiterdas.

The same here.
Norton Anti Virus autoprotect suddenly reported the presence of the virus Trojan.ByteVerify in the InstallerApplet.class file in some temp directory.
The scanner found the same file in my docs and settings. Saved a copy in case it's a hoax, but what's up?

I have received an email from a friend with a link which I clicked. It directed me to the google home page and I am now suspicious that it is a virus or a Trojan horse. I would know what to do on my PC but am new to Ipad. How can I check?

I have received an email from a friend with a link which I clicked. It took me to the google home page. I am now suspicious that my friend's email account has been hijacked and the link contained a virus or a Trojan horse. I would know what to do on my PC but am new to the IPad. Can any form of Trojan horse be planted on IOS 6 or am I worrying unnecessarily? Reassurance would be most welcome as I do use the IPad for checking bank details and web purchases. Thanks for any help.

PC virus won't run on iPad.

My NB505-N500BL with windows 7 got a Trojan Horse Virus..

Hello all,
OK.. I bought this NB505-N500BL, Serial # a couple years ago, it has Windows 7 Operation system.   I loaned it out to a friend who promptly got a Trojan Horse Virus then sent it back to me. I cannot find the original CD that came with this computer and I didn't make a recovery disc for it when I bought it.. (silly me)..
Question:   How do I fix this problem? IS it worth fixing? can I do it by buying a recovery disc from Toshiba OR do I need to buy new hardware?
Thanks..   Frank

mini notebook NB505-N500BL
Your support page is here - http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=2871355
From your user guide located here - http://support.toshiba.com/support/staticContentDetail?contentId=2865070&isFromTOCLink=false
Before you start recovery plug in power supply for the entire process:
You can recover the original factory image (returning the computer
to its out-of-box state) using the utilities stored on your computer’s
internal storage drive or using recovery DVDs/media, if you have
created such media. To recover using the first method, follow the
procedure below. To recover using the second method, see
“Restoring from recovery DVDs/media” on page 60.
To recover the original factory image using the utilities on your
computer’s internal storage drive:
1 Make sure the computer is turned off.
2 Press and hold the 0 (zero) key on your keyboard while
powering on the computer.
Getting Started 51
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
3 If your system offers a choice of Windows® 7 32-bit or 64-bit
operating system, select one at this time. If not, skip to step 4.
4 A warning screen appears, stating that when the recovery is
executed all data will be deleted and rewritten. Click Yes to
continue.
(Sample Image) Warning screen
5 When the Toshiba Recovery Wizard opens and the Selecting a
process screen displays, select Recovery of Factory Default
Software and then click Next.
(Sample Image) Selecting a Process screen
52 Getting Started
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
6 The Recovery of Factory Default Software screen appears.
Select Recover to out-of-box state.
(Sample Image) Recovery of Factory Default Software screen
7 Click Next.
A confirmation message displays reminding you that all data
will be lost during the recovery process. Be sure to save your
work to external media before proceeding (see “Backing up
your work” on page 93).
8 Click Next to begin the recovery.
When the process is complete, a message displays indicating
that the internal storage drive has been recovered.
9 Press any key on the keyboard to restart the computer.
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HT5246 The above info is confuses me. I thought this trojan horse affected those who had Java (JRE) up and running i.e.,Safari security Java checkbox enabled. I also believed this Trojan horse affected those using Snow Leopard. Clarify please.

The above info re the Flashback removal tool confuses me. I thought this trojan horse affected those who had Java (JRE) up and running i.e.,Safari security Java checkbox enabled. I also believed this Trojan horse also affected those using Snow Leopard. Clarify please.

There are several variants of the trojan. The first ones were released as installers for Adobe Flash and therefore did not require you to have Java on your system. Later variants took advantage of a Java vulnerability and could install themselves by simply visiting a rogue Web site. Therefore, even without Java installed if you had run a rogue updater for Adobe Flash or Reader, then you might have installed the trojan.
The trojan also affects Snow Leopard and prior versions of OS X (so far the code is known to be intel-only, but this is unconfirmed), but Apple has only issued patches for supported versions of the OS (version 10.6 or later).
Apple's removal tools run in OS X 10.6 or later if you instlal the Java update, and the standalone removal tool is for Lion only. Why Apple does not offer options for other operating systems is beyond me, but that's the way of things. Right now there are other tools you can use to check for and remove the malware on versions of OS X that Apple does not support: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57413811-263/flashback-malware-removal-tool -roundup/

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