Re: visad.jar

• To: "Campbell, Garrett" <Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: visad.jar
• From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:51:37 -0600

Hi Garrett,

> I have an unusual problem with the visad.jar file.
> Running under windows2000, when I click on the visad.jar file to examine
> its properties,
> my system hangs up for several minutes.  I wonder if there is a virus
> clinging to the end
> of this file.
> 
> After some more experimentation, this seems to happen to all .jar files
> proportional to their
> length.  I must have a subtile virus which activates when ever I click
> on a .jar file.
> 
> This is probably unrelated to visad.jar but I thought I would ask.

I make all the jar files on a Sparc Solaris system, so it
is unlikely that any kind of Windows virus is created in
the process. And the www.ssec.wisc.edu server is another
Sparc Solaris system.

Good luck,
Bill
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hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  608-263-4427  fax: 608-263-6738
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• References:
  • visad.jar
    • From: Campbell, Garrett