FF-3b3 - turning off virus scanner

[ehume]

I use AVG. Until fx3 started scanning the dl's, I never saw this behavior before.

Really, there ought to be a UI pref to turn it off, since most av apps check dl's automatically.

[Racer]

It looks like the related bugs are:
bug 103487 - use of default anti-virus scanner when downloading email and executables
bug 393792 - Add UI for antivirus scanner

393792 was marked WONTFIX, probably because it asked for the ability to manually specify an alternate scanner. I suggest someone file a bug that only requests a pref to disable the scanner, and see what happens.

[ckjnigel]

It looks like the related bugs are:
bug 103487 - use of default anti-virus scanner when downloading email and executables
bug 393792 - Add UI for antivirus scanner

393792 was marked WONTFIX, probably because it asked for the ability to manually specify an alternate scanner. I suggest someone file a bug that only requests a pref to disable the scanner, and see what happens.

Is everybody quite sure that there isn't already an undocumented about:config setting to turn off that AV scan?

[pikaunforgiven]

yep quite sure, if it were added at one point it would be in a bugzilla bug somewhere. devs generally dont add new functionality without a corresponding bug.

[Fuziwuzi]

As noted in my previous posts on this topic, the scans were never a problem for me because they happened so quickly I didn't notice them. That is, until yesterday's build. With that build and this one (2008011005), now the scans are very noticeable and take a considerable (relatively) amount of time. If I wanted my browser to initiate a virus scan, I'd install an extension to do that, there should be a way to turn it off without having to dig into my registry. Who is developing this thing now, Steve Balmer?

[Eygte450]

Here, in Vista 32bits with NOD32 v3, downloading XAMPP exe installer, the result was terrible, almost 50s for scanning and my FX got unstable and irresponsible all that time.

Athlon X2 3600+, 1GB DDR2, HD 7200rpm

[pikaunforgiven]

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

[Fuziwuzi]

I downloaded the nightly lightning.xpi, which is only 980k, and the resulting virus scan took 93 seconds. That is absurd. As a test, I manually scanned it with AVG (my installed AV ap) and it only took about 3 seconds. So why does the call from Minefield take so much longer now?

They have GOT to make a way to turn this off, if this gets out like this, at least for techie people (who make up a large portion of the FF user base I think), this will be death.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011105 Firefox/3.0b3pre ID:2008011105

[ehume]

I filed Bug #412094 for a pref to shut down these duplicative scans.

[Recall]

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

[ehume]

Were you using fx2 or fx3?

[Recall]

Were you using fx2 or fx3?

Tried with both, of course I could not install with FF3 due to incompatibility.

[Alan Baxter]

I filed Bug #412094 for a pref to shut down these duplicative scans.

Nice try, ehume. It took less than two hours for Matthias Versen to mark it as a duplicate of bug 393792, which has been marked as WONTFIX. At least we now have an official Mozilla response to our concerns. Thank goodness for third-party downloaders.

[Matti]

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

bug 393792 comment #0:
"In my opinion we need UI to disable antivirus scanning and also allow the user
to select a scanner" , that's the reason why i marked it as dupe.

bug 407657 would be better IMHO but also marked wontfix

Note:
I don't like this <censored> at all because every ******* Antivirus Software comes with a background scanner which slows down the whole system (that's the reason why I don't have an antivirus scanner installed, does anyone know a virus scanner that can I install without installing x windows background services).
I'm also a seamonkey user but I have Firefox for bugzilal triage (crashing it ) installed

[Stifu]

Technically, it wasn't a dupe of 393792...