[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Joseph Le Brech
If you are genuinely asking that question! then no, it's not safe!! Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 03:22:27 -0700 Subject: [jQuery] Is jquery safe ? From: erdeveshmis...@gmail.com To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Hi, I am using the latest version of jquery. I want to confirm that is there any

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas Allen
Oh, it gives you a virus...the virus of a clean API for the DOM. Some people in comp.lang.javascript would argue that jQuery itself is a virus, but they're a bit off-kilter. Thomas On Apr 9, 6:22 am, Devesh erdeveshmis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using the latest version of jquery. I want

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread MorningZ
While i agreed with the underlying thoughts above that the question is ridiculous... I have had some members on my primary site tell me that Norton reporting jquery.js as a dangerous file But that's Norton's fault, not jQuery's by any means On Apr 9, 9:10 am, Thomas Allen

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Ralph Whitbeck
Confirmed, it's safe. You can be sure that the jQuery source on Google AJAX Libraries API's is safe as they will do a independent review before posting if you still don't trust that jQuery is virus free. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ Ralph On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM, MorningZ

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread ryan.j
if you're not 100% confident in it you can just link to the google APIs link in your HTML files... script type=text/javascript src=http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/ libs/jquery/1.3.1/jquery.min.js/script where did you get your suspect copy of jquery? i guess it's possible there are some dodgy

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread brian
Why am I picturing John Resig with a gaping hole in his tooth? On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Devesh erdeveshmis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using the latest version of jquery. I want to confirm that is there any type virus or trozan with the latest version of jquery. I have searched it

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Jordon Bedwell
No, it's not a trojan. The alert you are probably getting about it is a false positive. The only AV company I have seen this caused by is Comodo because it uses a very advanced heuristics application approach to finding viruses and trojans in the wild preventing them before they are even aware

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Rey Bango
Right. That happens on occasion with packed minified versions of jQuery. Rey.. MorningZ wrote: While i agreed with the underlying thoughts above that the question is ridiculous... I have had some members on my primary site tell me that Norton reporting jquery.js as a dangerous file But

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Rey Bango
One other note. Please only download jQuery from the official site or use the version hosted on Google's CDN. Here are the official site links: http://jquery.com/ http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/ http://jqueryui.com/ (for the jQuery UI library) http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Devesh, I'm not sure if you're concerned because your virus scanner reported something or because you'd like to have some assurances that what you're downloading is legitimate. I'll address both just in case. 1) Virus Scanner Reported Something: In some instances, anti-virus programs have

[jQuery] Re: Is jquery safe ?

2009-04-09 Thread Ralph Whitbeck
Devesh, Here are some official responses to hopefully help in the next search to see if jQuery is safe: From my blog: http://ralphwhitbeck.com/2009/04/09/IsJQuerySafe.aspx From Rey Bango's blog: http://blog.reybango.com/2009/04/09/is-jquery-safe/ I hope this confirms that the team takes