Java Virus ?

[Riga, Anthony]

JAVA is designed so that a program cannot write to the user's file system without explicit permission so presuming the JAVA interpreter is correctly implemented, there is a layer of protection against viral infection built into the language. Sounds like maybe those files that were scanned could have been orphaned files.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of Scott Lawton
Sent: Fri 11/21/2003 4:47 PM
To: NFLUG
Subject: Java Virus ?
 
This is not specifically a Linux question, but I thought I would tap the 
collective knowledge of the group.
The last time I ran my AV software this showed up in the detection log.

Testing C:\ volume C DRIVE serial 2C2C-1805
C:\WINDOWS\.jpi_cache\FILE\1.0\VERIFI~1.CLA repaired
C:\WINDOWS\.jpi_cache\FILE\1.0\VERIFI~2.CLA repaired

My question is this. Can virii use/be spread by java, or was this just 
legitimate code that was mistakenly idetified as malicious ?
Or was that just where a particular virus chose to hide ?
TIA

-- 
hardware: n, the part of a computer that can be kicked.

software: n, the part of a computer that causes hardware to be kicked.

Scott
Mozilla 1.0 mail on Windows 98 SE






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