Thanks Alan, very kind, I took note of these two settings. Strangely enough I always thought they applied only to IE
They were set to PROMPT. So I believe the reason why my AntiVirus came up is because I have this additional layer in my system. Without it I would have gotten a prompt?
Today i entered a website which had an img src tag linking to an .exe file which my antivirus blocked as it was malware. How possible would it be for NoScript to take care of such requests, hence blocking .exe/.com/.bat and any other executable files in the same way .js are blocked?