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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Lars-Erik on November 02, 2004, 09:47:29 PM
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I have always heard that scanning .html files with anti-virus is a waste as viruses are in .exe files or applets, but I'm a bit paranoid so I added .html as well. And yesterday I got a virus warning while surfing on a .html file. Don't remember the name it's not in my virus chest for some reason. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I have always heard that scanning .html files with anti-virus is a waste as viruses are in .exe files or applets, but I'm a bit paranoid so I added .html as well.
You mean you add the html extension to the on-access extension list to be scanned...
The High sensitivity will do the same. Does the script blocker will make any difference here?
And yesterday I got a virus warning while surfing on a .html file. Don't remember the name it's not in my virus chest for some reason. Has anyone else noticed this?
Where were you yesterday? ;D
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Looking for a patch on some not-to-good hacker pages :-)
I know they have much ads, porn, links etc, but I never experienced a virus inside the .html (but no danger, I filter ads, I filter sex/porn keywords, pop-ups, and viruses :-)
Didn't find a patch tough (it was not a crack, but the search matched some keywords on a not-to-good page, search-bait I guess or something).
Well, it's good to know that avast! and WebWasher is there to protecty me against stuff like that :-)
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Outpost firewall could help with ads, porn, links, sex/porn keywords, pop-ups, and, because ot this, viruses too ;)
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I stick with WebWasher. Love it. To bad the free versions hasn't been updated for a while (has one bug, on pages with many images some images are not always loaded). But the filtering functions are GOOD and easy to fine-tune.