Comments on: Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox 3

By: vinayak

vinayak — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:50:38 +0000

Thanks for such wise information…. really appreciated. …

By: kitleong

kitleong — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:57:29 +0000

thank you very much, it works in firefox 4.0 too. :)

By: Xamuel

Xamuel — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:41:13 +0000

Thanks so much. I could understand it if you’re downloading an .exe or something, but it’s absolutely ridiculous that it scans, say, a jpeg, *when it’s already downloaded the jpeg into temporary internet files and displayed it anyway*. Brilllliant, Firefox 9_9

By: daGrevis

daGrevis — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:10:40 +0000

Wonderful! Thanks a lot… ))

By: Matko

Matko — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:39:39 +0000

Thanks a lot. this solved my long lasting problem, when firefox in my old machine scanned longer files, it took ages.

By: NC

NC — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:48:13 +0000

Tnx a lot!

By: abadev.com » FireFox preferencies: about:config

abadev.com » FireFox preferencies: about:config — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:52 +0000

[...] example, to disable the antivirus scan after file download, you need set the value for browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone attribute in [...]

By: SillyHalfMexican

SillyHalfMexican — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:16:36 +0000

Thanks!
Answered this perfectly!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:29:59 +0000

Thank you! This helped me out so much!

By: zerb

zerb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:34:23 +0000

Ahhh. That’s much better. Thank you :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:57:30 +0000

Thanks for the help man.

By: An A**HOLE

An A**HOLE — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:41:30 +0000

Shut up, Terry.

By: Pavlo Fabri

Pavlo Fabri — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:53:29 +0000

The virus scanner in Firefox is a piece of fucking bullshit. I have on purpose downloaded viruses from theserials.com (all the files there are viruses) and it didn’t pick anything up. Whoever added this feature is a fucking n00b.

Thank you Martin.

By: Heywood

Heywood — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:39:35 +0000

I was hoping I could disable the virus scan for individual file types, like .torrent files, ridiculous. Thanks for the tip!

By: herk

herk — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:20:21 +0000

thanks, i was not liking the scan, especially for really small files like torrents

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:42:10 +0000

Thank you so much, this scan takes forever on large files.

By: Disable virus scanning in Firefox after download | Nongraphical.com

Disable virus scanning in Firefox after download | Nongraphical.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:25:45 +0000

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By: josef yousef

josef yousef — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:14:49 +0000

anti virus comes with the browser, very small one but it does however take up memory whilst in use.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:39:02 +0000

Same issue here – never had any anti-virus software installed on my machine, and don’t have one right now, yet Firefox 3 seems to scan every file I download. Is this is a “false scan” or did they actually manage to install an anti-virus with the browser?

By: josef yousef

josef yousef — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:08:34 +0000

Follow the instructions CORRECTLY in the article, works fine, thanks.