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

[mum laris]

Hi again,

running in another profile (don't ask me why), also Jotti says no 
malware detected.

Thanks,

M.


On 11/10/20 13:07, mum laris via clamav-users wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 10/10/20 15:15, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, mum laris via clamav-users wrote:
>>> On 10/10/20 01:01, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>>>> gzip -vt FF13A1C7B9A4E5C26BE58596DF7F58E6CCB3F19F
>>> FF13A1C7B9A4E5C26BE58596DF7F58E6CCB3F19F:
>>> gzip: ... decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
>>
>> Trailing garbage doesn't necessarily malicious content, it could be as
>> simple as a carelessly coded utility which didn't do something (e.g.
>> terminate) correctly, but I agree with you that it's suspicious.
>>
>> Do the timestamps (for example) on these files tell you anything about
>> where they might have come from?
>>
> only streaming video I see are youtube or netflix; if not related to 
> any of these ones...
>>> So parsing it ...
>>>
>>> (function(){function r(e,n,t){function o(i,f){if(!n[i]){if(!e[i])...
>>> And at the end of file:
>>>
>>> //# sourceMappingURL=bundle.js.map
>>>
>>>
>>> How can a js be cached in this way?
>>
>> I know nothing about caching scripts (and almost nothing about caching
>> anything else) in Firefox, but 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.
>>
>> Why not submit the file to one of the sites which will scan for
>> malware with multiple scanning engines, e.g. Jotti or Virustotal?
>>
>> https://virusscan.jotti.org/
>> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/
>>
> Jotti doesn't work in my firefox profile
>
> Viruscan says no detected engine... (safe)
>
>> Have you tried pasting the md5sum of the file(s) into a search engine?
>>
> Yeah, no result...
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
>
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