Why is javaw.exe Randomly Disappearing?

Javaw. Exe has been known to trigger false positives with some virus checkers; e.g.

Javaw. Exe has been known to trigger false positives with some virus checkers; e.g. java.com/en/download/faq/Trojan3.uj.xml Try looking in your virus checker's quarantine area / logs to see if the executable has turned up there. If it has, then update your virus checker and (if the problem still occurs) contact the supplier.

The XP does not have a Virus Scanner and the Vista only has the one built in to Windows. Although I don't doubt that Windows Defender would have problems like that, I manually ran the scanner and javaw. Exe was not effected.

There are no items in my Quarantined area and no indication that javaw. Exe was removed by Windows Defender. But next time it happens I'll look into the Quarantined area.

– Dorothy Oct 6 at 16:33 It happened again on the Vista. No item in Quarantined. That was after I renamed javaw.

Exe to myjavaw.exe. I think a virus scanner can be ruled out. – Dorothy Oct 6 at 20:41.

This has been resolved. It turns out that my Uninstall program does a very thorough job. Because I was not doing my part properly when it came to uninstalling the program, the uninstaller could not delete javaw.

Exe as well as some other files. It then created a task for the next reboot. But I re-installed the program before the next reboot.It then deleted the javaw.

Exe of the newly installed program. I am now doing my part of the uninstall process (ending the background program that was using javaw. Exe among other things).

So, that problem has stopped occurring. Thank you for the other suggestions. They were very educational.

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