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Consumer Products => Avast Mac Security => Topic started by: Giopad65 on August 01, 2009, 10:26:26 AM

Title: Cannot delete a virus
Post by: Giopad65 on August 01, 2009, 10:26:26 AM
Hi to all, I am new to this forum and hope you can help me with the following.
I recently installed Avast 2.74R0 on my iMac and then launched a complete scan of the hard disk.
Beside the warnings (expecially an "err 13" wich I know is related to file access permissions), I found an error reported for  an object called "java.class".
When trying to remove the virus, I only got a generic message saying:

Processing 1 objects,
0 was successfully processed
0 did not allow the operation
1 was not processed successfully.

I mean, I can't understand why the virus removal couldn't be carried out.
Do you have any hints?
The virused object is in Users/myname/Library/Caches/Java/cache/javapi/v1.0/jar/
Nevertheless, there's no file called "java.class", but a plenty of ".jar" and other files instead.
Therefore I don't know what the virused object could actually be.

Thanks in advance to all.
Giopad65
Title: Re: Cannot delete a virus
Post by: FreewheelinFrank on August 01, 2009, 10:48:21 AM
Try emptying the Java cache via the Java console.
Title: Re: Cannot delete a virus
Post by: .: Mac :. on August 02, 2009, 06:21:27 AM
As Freewheelinfrank said you need to empty the java cache.
Title: Re: Cannot delete a virus
Post by: zilog on August 07, 2009, 04:25:22 PM
Quote from: Giopad65 on August 01, 2009, 10:26:26 AM
Hi to all, I am new to this forum and hope you can help me with the following.
I recently installed Avast 2.74R0 on my iMac and then launched a complete scan of the hard disk.
Beside the warnings (expecially an "err 13" wich I know is related to file access permissions), I found an error reported for  an object called "java.class".
When trying to remove the virus, I only got a generic message saying:

Processing 1 objects,
0 was successfully processed
0 did not allow the operation
1 was not processed successfully.

I mean, I can't understand why the virus removal couldn't be carried out.
Do you have any hints?
The virused object is in Users/myname/Library/Caches/Java/cache/javapi/v1.0/jar/
Nevertheless, there's no file called "java.class", but a plenty of ".jar" and other files instead.
Therefore I don't know what the virused object could actually be.

Thanks in advance to all.
Giopad65

Hallo,
*.jar is a kind of archive, containing the particular *.class files as members. Try manipulating with the whole JAR, when it doesn't allow per-member deletion, i'm not sure whether it's even desirable to delete particular member of this package - will be unusable anyway.

regards,
pc