Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
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Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 3:06 PM
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so I duly "quarantined" them.... after which, my laptop seemed to stop dead on every page loading at about 95% according to the red progress bar (bottom right of screen)
suspecting that it was caused by the above "quarantine" action... I chose one to "restore" from the quarantine shed.... when I did select it, I got the following message
This object is a virus or unwanted programs. Are you sure you want to restore this. YES NO..
that worried me a little , so I declined.... however, trying to get the speedtester to work, was impossible, so I decided to restore it.... and lo everything is back to normal .!...
The item was something to do with JAVA and is (was) located in Local Low\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache.... can`t remember the exact file name,except it ended in .do or .doe
the other item, which is still in quarantine is EXP/CVE-2010-0094.BA also located in Local Low\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache
As an added extra, I downloaded and installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player As both of these actions were done almost simultaneously, I don`t know which restored the laptop to normal!..
Any comments?
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 5:37 PM
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However, there are many viruses that seek to exploit security holes in older versions of Java and they might well reside in the cache folder if you catch one. Are you running the latest version of Java (6.29)?
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 8:48 PM
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how do I check?
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 9:41 PM
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Go into Control Panel, Add Remove Programmes and see if there are several versions there.
If there are uninstall the earlier ones
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 10:22 PM
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Java (TM) 6 update 26 dated 13/10/2010
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 10:30 PM
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the latest version is 6 update 29
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
02-12-2011 10:42 PM
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Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
06-12-2011 11:28 AM
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Scan completed [The scan has been done completely.].
Number of files: 537601
Number of directories: 18724
Number of malware: 3
Number of warnings: 1
one of which is this
The file 'C:\Users\Gerry\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\56\69bbaXXXXXXXXXXXXX ( my XXXX in that ref)
contained a virus or unwanted program 'JAVA/Exdoer.DH' [virus]
as noted above, I am now running the latest Jave update... .... any advice please?
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
06-12-2011 2:26 PM
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Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
06-12-2011 6:11 PM
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Quote from: shutter After it`s daily scan, my copy of Avira reported two items of concern.....
so I duly "quarantined" them.... after which, my laptop seemed to stop dead on every page loading at about 95% according to the red progress bar (bottom right of screen)
suspecting that it was caused by the above "quarantine" action... I chose one to "restore" from the quarantine shed.... when I did select it, I got the following message
This object is a virus or unwanted programs. Are you sure you want to restore this. YES NO..
that worried me a little , so I declined.... however, trying to get the speedtester to work, was impossible, so I decided to restore it.... and lo everything is back to normal .!...
The item was something to do with JAVA and is (was) located in Local Low\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache.... can`t remember the exact file name,except it ended in .do or .doe
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
06-12-2011 7:46 PM
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If you have a file identified as a virus and removing the file slows your computer to a crawl then:
1) It could be a well-embedded virus that is not being removed properly.
2) It could be a false positive
Or if it just keeps coming back you might be repeatedly visiting the same bad web site.
Re: Avira quarantine slows my laptop to a standstill !
07-12-2011 12:21 PM
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Avira did it`s daily duty and dug out the above file again,.... so this time I have "quarantined! it....
did a MyBroadband speed test.... and no problem,... so hopefully everything is good again now...
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