Quote - Know what 3Dillusions, I'm using FF, and if I had only known to disable Java, I wouldn't still be wondering if info could have been ciphered by the cached Java crap. :s

My AV located the infected stuff in FF's cache, but it didn't point me to the Java cache til I did a full scan.

As long as your software (any software) caches files you run a risk.  Best thing is to find out where those files are being kept temporarily and make sure you keep it cleaned out...it should be part of your regular maintenance.
Your computer keeps these files in a temp folder...( there's more than one on your pc ) ..and says its faster to retrieve them from there than to download them all over again...so in that folder you have everything sitting there that was a part of the page that you originally downloaded...pics..scripts..flash  ad cookies session info...everything that went into making that page available to you!

If you haven't already checked it out..load up a page or two from the net...and go open your temp internet folder and look at all the junk in it....junk that doesn't all go away by itself.
Java isn't the only thing to watch out for....and the temp internet folder isn't the only place that keeps those things.

 

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