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That is a really bad take.

Executing code written in any language -- dynamic, static, compiled, interpreted -- would be problematic here.

> That service loads the low level antivirus engine, and analyzes untrusted data received from sources like the filesystem minifilter or intercepted network traffic.

Forget JS. Do not load or execute code from untrusted sources in an unsandboxed environment with system permissions. This is about capabilities, not syntax. If your main takeaway is, "they should have used a C interpreter instead", then you have entirely missed the point.


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