[clamav-users] recently noted that scanning firefox browser cache reports many errors

Al Varnell alvarnell at mac.com
Sat Oct 10 13:35:46 UTC 2020


Exactly, which is why I consider cache scanning to be a total waste of time. Most of what will be found is just adware and if it caused any issues, that would already have taken place. Cache files are just history files and perfectly harmless by themselves.

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-Al-
ClamXAV User

> On Oct 10, 2020, at 06:15, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> I imagine that most browsers will cache
> scripts in more or less the same way that they'll cache anything else.
> It's all just data which would otherwise have to be transferred again.
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