"Safe Browsing" conflict with Kaspersky AV in Fire

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"Safe Browsing" conflict with Kaspersky AV in Fire

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The following update to Google "safebrowsing" is flagged as a virus by Kaspersky AV:

detected: Trojan program Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.ak URL: Really long link (Click here)

This warning pop-up appeared every 60 seconds until I found and turned off "safebrowsing".

"safebrowsing" should not be activated by default if another AV is installed.

To turn off "safebrowsing", go to Tools>Options>Security and untick "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery".

Not Impressed.

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Exactly which aspect of Firefox are you wishing to address?
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In Firefox 2.0 Tools>Options>Security there is a checkbox labeled "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is ...".
This turns on a copy of Google "Safe browsing" which is embedded in Firefox 2.0.
It is on by default.
It conflicts with other Antivirus packages. It is well known that having two AV packages running at the same time is asking for trouble.

It should not be on by default.
If it is turned on there should be a warning of potential conflict.

Thanks for responding.
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1. "Safe browsing" is not an antivirus.

2. Safe browsing works fine with other antivirus programs.

3. This tells me that Kaspersky AV is reporting a false positive and that you need to report this to Kaspersky.
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Post by Guest »

Thanks, I had done that.

What is "safe browsing" then? I had no way to accept the update as I had no information on the program, so I could not assume it was safe.
One of my rules of the internet jungle is that anything with "safe" in the name, probably isn't. :)
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It's antiphishing. The download from google is an update of the bad sites.
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