FF-3b3 - turning off virus scanner

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Matti,

That language is not allowed here. I edited it out. Do not do it again.

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Post by Alan Baxter »

Matti wrote:"At least we now have an official Mozilla response"
I'm not official, I'm just a bug triager doing this for many years.

Thanks for the clarification, Matti. It looks like the request for the ability to disable the automatic scan of downloads was turned down by Shawn Wilsher last October. See bug 393792 comment 3 where Rob Arnold says
allowing users to disable scanning is very dangerous to their security.

Jonathan Haas's reply
And allowing users to disable scanning is not very dangerous. Many advanced
users don't even use a antivirus scanner.
appears to have been ignored.
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Post by Matti »

Again, I agree that this scanning in the background is wrong if you can't cancel it because your virus scanner takes years to scan it.
I only marked it as duplicate report and that is correct if I read comment #0 on the original bug report.
The cancel scanning is also a dupe but a different one (which would make your bug also invalid because of 2 issues/bug )

Shawn Wilsher is the developer of that feature and only he can decide if a RFE bugi s valid or wontfix

I expect that you get a double-scan but you could test this with the eicar test file (scroll down for the download links):
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

Every Anti-Virus scanner should alert you for this test file (This is no real virus !)
Use Firefox2.X and you should be also get a warning with activated background scanning.

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The devs are becoming more and more like Microsoft every day... they know what is best for you, you have no choice, you will do as you're told and you will like it. :(
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Post by Eygte450 »

pikaunforgiven wrote:yikes, how big is the XAMPP.exe installer? that would be brutal for me.

Around 37MB
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641
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Recall wrote:Just a FYI, I made a post about a serious issue with NOD32 and both official and nightly builds of firefox. It is currently being looked in to and will be fixed.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=197235


Just an update, they have now fixed the issue in NOD32, not sure if it fixes large downloads I need to do some testing anyone got a file for me as I am on a 20mbps connection?
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Post by Matti »

Fuziwuzi wrote:The devs are becoming more and more like Microsoft every day... they know what is best for you, you have no choice, you will do as you're told and you will like it. :(


There must be someone decide such things because if you implement everything that users suggest in bugzilla than you would have a Firefox with thousands of buttons and one Million Preferences.
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I suspect there will eventually be an option to turn this off. The devs often don't like to admit they are wrong, but with so many virus scanners exhibiting poor performance, I doubt that even careful threading will avoid bringing the browser to a halt on many machines.
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Post by Recall »

I think what will happen is that it will ship without the preference, then if like the major memory leak problems that showed when FF2 came out, except this can be hotfixed.
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Post by ehume »

Might I recommend that we all go and vote for Bug 412094?
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ehume wrote:Might I recommend that we all go and vote for Bug 412094?

Sadly, I don't think that'll change anything... Apparently, votes in general have very little weight, not to mention your bug has already been marked as duplicate (whether that was appropriate or not).
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I think voting is generally a waste of time. The only possible value I can see (apart from being a placebo) is to reassure a developer working on a fix that there is interest in the bug.
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asquithea wrote:I think voting is generally a waste of time. The only possible value I can see (apart from being a placebo) is to reassure a developer working on a fix that there is interest in the bug.

I personally use votes to silently add myself to the CC list. The normal way of CC ist just to much bugspam.
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the_dees wrote:I personally use votes to silently add myself to the CC list. The normal way of CC ist just to much bugspam.

Same here, and that also lets me keep track of all the bugs I'm interested in.
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Post by RyanVM »

the_dees wrote:
asquithea wrote:I think voting is generally a waste of time. The only possible value I can see (apart from being a placebo) is to reassure a developer working on a fix that there is interest in the bug.

I personally use votes to silently add myself to the CC list. The normal way of CC ist just to much bugspam.
You can adjust your email prefs, you know. There's no reason CCing yourself to a bug has to lead to a lot of spam.
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