Warning: Java component download site infected with malware

A Google search for 'swing sliding panel' gave this as the first result: http://www.java2s.com/Product/Java/Swing/OutlookBar-SlidePane.htm

The page contains links to SyGem Software products

On clicking a SyGem link, Avira flagged a virus but the computer was infected. I suspect multiple malware and that the infection resulted from a virus/adware that went undetected by Avira

The symptoms observed are regular popping up of the default browser with advertising pages, and corruption of Windows7 desktop gadgets, with the clock showing as a black square with a second hand pointing straight up

Downloaded and installed Ad-Aware, which flagged and removed 10 malware objects. During the scan it halted the process zrr.exe several times.

With guidance from various Microsoft and third party help/support sites I removed the registry folder

(in case that last character doesn't display in your browser, it's the graphic character for the left bottom corner of a box -- looks a lot like L)

This solved the problem as far as the gadgets are concerned. I'll watch for a few days before I can be sure that all problems are solved

This is being multiposted on the Swing / AWT / SWT / JFace forum and cross posted to other Java forums.

db

Have you contacted SyGem? Perhaps they are not aware of this, and they would like to have this solved. If you're afraid to visit their site again you can probably try sending emails to info@, webmaster@ and root@ for their domain. One of these usually works (and spammers are well aware of this unfortunately).

In view of the nature of this message, I would be happy to make an exception to the policies about multiple posts.

I have received the following email from info[at]java2s.com in response to my mail alerting them to the issue.

db

Hi db,

Thanks for your alert. Totally 11 entries from Sygem have been removed and the site is updated. Please check.

Thanks again for your time and kindness

Well done