what to do

smudger1946

Hiya All,
Happy new year.

Just ran a security scan on lappie running Vista Home Premium,
It found two Severe viruses i suppose, telling me they should be removed as soon as poss.
Not being very thechie i'm not sure how to go about it, i couldnt copy and paste it for some reason so i have hand written the details, hope it makes sense to someone.

EXPLOIT:JAVA/CVE-2010-0848.AG
EXPLOIT:JAVA/CVE-2009-3867.OR

Please advise on how to remove them (please keep it simple)

Thanks in advance Smudger

spakkker

Which program did you use to scan with? Surely there should have been an option to delete/quarantine them ?
You could try searching for them and then manually delete them.

smudger1946

Microsoft security essentials, they were and are in quarintine, but it was reccomended to remove software immediatley by microsoft.

Chunks

Hi Smudger and ditto to you too.

In your position, and in the absence of a step by step tutorial, I would first try and establish exactly what you're dealing with.

Googling your note took me to this site:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Shared/Help.aspx#malware_naming

Presuming you use Microsoft's own kit for scanning purposes?

Chunks

santer_2

Courtesy of Google, it can be down to having outdated java installed, so they reckon on, cleaning out the temporary files, updating Java, updating your virus scanner and run a scan

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=EXPLOIT%3AJAVA%2FCVE-2009-3867.OR&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

http://filehippo.com/download_jre_32/

Chunks

Sorry post crossed. They do how to tutorials for that product:

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/support.aspx?mkt=en-gb#mainNav

Should be relatively straightforward (famous last words).

Chunks