JS:Blinker - Virus??

Viruses and worms
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After going to what I thought was a safe site, Avast began identifing a virus on my computer named JS:Blinker. Avast is reporting numerous system, program, etc files infected by this virus. I have been deleting the “infected” files, however, now I am wondering wheter this is a true virus I will prbably have to use System Restore since now some of my programs won’t run.
Has anyone heard of JS:Blinker? Is it a virus? Is there an easy way to delete? I found one small description of it on ComputerNetworks site but not really informative. Can’t find anything on Avast even though it identified it as a virus.
Can anyone help? ???

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What are the full names of the reported files? (if there’s really many of them, just a few examples)

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And what is the location of the file(s)? Complete path and folder please.

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Check out this link:

http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/j/joke_js_blinker.asp#Detection%20and%20Removal

duckula

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Everyone thanks for the quick replies. I did go to Pest Patrol before doing anything but as you can see from the information provided it doesn’t tell you a lot. Since there were so many files that Avast said were infected, I did a system restore and reran Avast, McAfee Free Scan, and Trend Micro and no viruses were identified.

What I now believe may have happened is that I may have been getting a false result because I was originally running Trend Micro’s free scan at the same time that the Avast Scanner was active. Since Trend Micro uses a Java Script when it runs and JS:Blinker is, from what I can tell, a Java Script annoyance, I am wondering if that was trigger a false report.

regardless, everything seems back to normal.

Thanks again. :slight_smile:

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I don’t think it was a false alarm (rather a Joke-Script), but a SystemRestore is one of the best ways to make diagnostics impossible and prevent any change of behaviour … :wink:

  • make sure that you have all Windowsupdates (including for IE) applied
  • use UPTODATE! Sun’s JAVA-VM instead of unsafe MS-VM
  • secure your browser: the link “VirusRemoval” below in my sig should give you some ideas…
    :wink:
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Sun’s Java also had a vulnerability. I don’t know if this is fixed in the latest version or not.

Source

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I don’t remember his name but 3 months ago i’d a false alarm after using trend scan online :so Lfazza may be right