Re: Trojan ByteVerify Question

george wrote:


Right - my machine is about a year old, o/s windows xp, it runs java 1.5;
how could I possibly have byteverify in the first place?


Trivial: Visit a website containing something like <object data="http://someserver.org/somepath/somefilename.class"; type="application/java" width="0" height="0"></object>. This will make somefilename.class end up in
- your webbrowser's cache
- your webbrowser's plugin temporary directory
- your java applet cache, unless you have deactivated caching

Whatever peoples oppinions are on Norton security, it is still

> one of market leaders

Who cares for the winner of the paralympics of security solutions? Unless you want your system to get hosed, you should never install such a software.

> and as such you'd expect it to prevent you getting this old trojan?

Why should I try preventing my webbrowser from caching data? I fucking don't care what it is as long as is doesn't get executed.




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