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jmrathbun

Today at 7:42:40 ET I tried to log into my currect game, whereupon my AVG antivirus program blocked me with the message that it has detected "Exploit Rogue Scanner (type 831) Severity High at cssjs.chesscomfiles.com/js/chess2/bundled/ChessViewer.v20130808.js"

linuxed

Strange.  v20130808 looks to be the date.  Something suspicious about today's chess.com javascript?  These virus scanners tend to have pretty tight nets, so it might be a false positive.  I'd err on the side of caution.

linuxed

ClamAV shows it as clean.  I downloaded it and scanned it.  These were the results.

 

$ clamscan ChessViewer.v20130808.js
ChessViewer.v20130808.js: OK

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 2555112
Engine version: 0.97.8
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.59 MB
Data read: 0.25 MB (ratio 2.36:1)
Time: 20.901 sec (0 m 20 s)

Your mileage may vary.