Virus on web-page (html-file)

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?

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?

Where were you yesterday? ;D

Looking for a patch on some not-to-good hacker pages :slight_smile:

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 :slight_smile:

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 :slight_smile:

Outpost firewall could help with ads, porn, links, sex/porn keywords, pop-ups, and, because ot this, viruses too :wink:

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.