jucheck.exe found

[arkadia]

Hi all, new to avast and the scanner has put jucheck.exe in the virus vault. It comes from C:\Programfiles\Java\jre1.6.0...
with a size of 272024.  I would be of the opinion that this is a Java updater, but I have left it in the vault for the time being.
Anyone have any advice about this?

I am using avast 4.8 free, Windows XP SP2, Firefox 3 browser.

[alanrf]

My jucheck.exe is in folder C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin with a size of 322 Kb and a date of 02/22/2008 with time 04:25.

You may want to check that you have the latest update

[TedNelly]

Checking on the latest update is a good idea.
This is the version on my system however there is a beta version available
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_06\bin
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 6 Info about Beta update and Update 6 link below
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Java Runtime Environment 6 Update 10 Beta 
Download Sun Java Runtime Environment from the USA

"Older versions of Sun Java have vulnerabilities that malware can use to infect your system. Virtumonde (aka Vundo) often takes advantage of these vulnerabilities."
Updating Sun Java
Details on updating Sun Java

[arkadia]

Thank you both for such excellent advice. Very much appreciated.
I checked my version of Java and it was _05, plus I had all the other updates as well.
I downloaded the current version, uninstalled all the others, and installed the current one.
Then deleted the jucheck.exe in the virus chest.

Very good advice and all is hunky dory 

[Lisandro]

Keep your avast and Java updated