AVG Anti-Virus SUCKS!
I need a replacement for my current anti-virus software.
Here I am editing some JavaScript files for inclusion in an another AJAX application and I accidentally rename them *.txt.js.
Next thing I know I cannot right-click and open in my standard editor!
After damn near a minute an anti-virus warning from AVG pops up.
You are kidding me right? This day and age and all this miraculous heuristic scanning, virtual sandbox technology and I get a false-positive from a damned plain ASCII text file.
Now I could see if it was named *.txt.vbs or if I had somehow inadvertently ran it through the Windows Script Host.
Not to mention, JavaScript (along with any variation of ECMAScript) cannot interact with a system to such an extent as to cause serious damage. Well, let me rephrase that it can cause damage if you are a moron!
HTAs are susceptible to this type of attack or running malicious code directly via a browser (or in an e-mail application on Windows systems).
Other than that what I am going to do fall prey to a vicious XSS attack on my desktop?
It figures though right as I type this I run across this article:
http://www.nist.org/news.php?extend.175
Dammit. Anyway…
I am not likely to be chased down by a “JavaScript Spider” anytime soon…