Forum and Java update malware?

[Uthgaard]

All of these reports are mostly useless and devoid of any relevant information. If you suspect that you've picked up a virus,

Step 1: Make sure you can see hidden files
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Step 2: Find the files the virus put on your computer. Pay attention to the date and time stamp.
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You can delete it if you want, you might have to kill the process or service first. I'm not going to go into detail on how to do that here.

Step 3: Make sure there isn't anything set to happen at the next bootup.
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I'm not so concerned with telling you how to get it off of your computer, there are many more specialized pages on the internet for doing that, and several tailored to each particular virus. They might not have an obvious name like this. Some use the names of legitimate executables. So if you see anything executable turn up, it's suspect.

Now that you have the exact date and time that it was placed onto your pc, go into your browsing history, and pinpoint everything that you were doing at that exact time. Sorting the 'modified on' search by date and time, you should be able to get a pretty good impression. The sooner after picking one up that you do this, the better the odds are that you'll be able to narrow it down.

So far no one has given any specifics as far as origin. Fix that.