Re: visad.jar

• To: "Campbell, Garrett" <Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: visad.jar
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:15:28 -0600

Garrett:

If you are running McAffee as your anit-virus program, then I should tell you
that we have experienced many problems with the java runtime jar files (like
rt.jar) that cause McAffee to go into a tail-spin and consume all the cpu,
making the system appear to hang.  

This has been an issue for NWS offices who are simply trying to install a
VISITview lesson, which requires un-zipping a ZIP archive (which apparently
triggers the scan) that contains the Sun's jre-related jar files.  We recommend
users temporarily turn off McAffee before unzipping the lessons, and then turn
it back on again.  The company responded briefly to my inquiry, telling me to
the the latest version -- the only problem with that is we do not use it
here...

And if you're not running McAffee, it may still cause your anti-virus scan to
look through every file in the jar.

tom


"Campbell, Garrett" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> G. Garrett Campbell Ph. D.
> Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
> Colorado State University
> Ft. Collins, CO, USA
> 970 491 8497
> campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-- 
Tom Whittaker (tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
Phone/VoiceMail: 608/262-2759
Fax: 608/262-5974

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