hi really stuck here,got a message from norton telling me i had a virus but after scanning it told me it could not repair,quarantine or delete and that access to the file was denied.tried all the stuff like symantec,hijack(which i think i did wrongly as im not very computer wise!)microtrend but to no avail but when i tried trojan removal(microsoft i think) it told me i had no virus but when i tried deleting from temporary internet files i was told it couldnt be deleted to the recycle bin due to the program belonging to someone else..hope this makes sense to someone as for a computer idiot ive had a very long day to no avail lol many thanks for any help Paul Paul

Hi Pedro; I had a similar problem, which the folks at this forum helped me fix. Here's the link to my posting: http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/15714.html Hope this helps. Swinny

hi swinny thanks for ur quick reply coz what hair i have left has now gone lol.looked at ur message and did almost to the letter..thank goodness its now gone and my computer has returned to nomal speed and function. many thanks Paul

Glad I could help. Cheers!

What is interesting is that, in the past 2 months, I have done a disk wipe and reinstall of XP Pro. As soon as I download the Java app. from Sun, I am infected. I already have a full battery of spy/mal/virus sweepers running when I download. It appears the Sun site is infected.

Here are the instructions on how to manually remove these malicious applets from the JRE cache directory: to get rid of Java.ByteVerify! do the following, just fixed my problem. 1. From the Start button, click Settings> Control Panel 2. In the Control Panel, open the "Java Plug-in Control Panel" 3. Select the Cache Tab 4. Click the Clear button inside the Cache Tab, which will clear your JRE cache directory

I have the same problem and tried to follow Max's steps, but I don't have a "cache tab". The tabs I have in my Java Control Panel are: General Update Java Security Advanced Now in the general tab there is "temporary internet files" that I can delete ... is this what you are referring to, or is it something else?