Virus scanner

[Leigh Honeywell]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:15:37PM -0400, David Curtis wrote:
> Seconded, nothing in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/Cache/ is ever
> executable.

Executed, no, but it's certainly interpreted (run) by the browser.

> I guess any malicious script would be directed at a browser
> (probably IE) vulnerability. Nothing that a virus scanner is going to
> be able to prevent.

Speaking as someone who does work in the AV industry - most modern
commercial AV scanners, including my employer's, do detect this kind
of malicious JS before execution by watching for it "on the wire"
ie. on download.

> I say delete without a second thought.

Now that I can agree with :)

-Leigh