I'm more concerned about what caused rundll to try and launch wget from j701. Virus scan did not find any other objectionable file, and j701 was just idle in the background without any net related code loaded.
----- Original Message ----- From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> To: General forum <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 3:52:44 PM Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] virus signatures Ah, malware-Gen, the infamous "I have no idea what this is, but there's no way to remove it, nor to determine if it has been removed, because we do not actually know what we are talking about". The best cure, here, is to take your computer, and go to an iron foundry and melt it down. That's sure to get rid of it. (*) Thanks, -- Raul (*) The obvious flaw, here, is that most iron foundries have been shut down, which makes this suggestion just a bit more impractical than it would otherwise be. On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:24 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via General < [email protected]> wrote: > It seems as though J's copy of wget.exe just got flagged by avast anti > virus as being infected by malware-Gen. This applies to all versions of J. > > I'm not 100% sure it is a false positive because I found out about it > while avast stopped J701's copy of wget from launching without any action > on my part to initiate this (through rundll). Does J7 periodically check > for updates on its own? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
