Comments on: Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox 3

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.

By: Dude

Dude — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:21 +0000

same here no virus scanner installed and firefox still says it is scanning the file

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:10:05 +0000

Terry as far as I know this should not happen. Did you import old data from Firefox by chance? Which operating system did you install? Did you check the about:config entry?

By: Terry Matthews

Terry Matthews — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:50:55 +0000

What is your problem, Mr. James Johnson? Such a childish, rude reply can only make a person think very little of you.
I only stated a true observation and inquired about it. Maybe it was just a bug in the build of Firefox 3? I do have the latest release. I saw this while downloading drivers before I installed McAfee.

By: james johnson

james johnson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:41:11 +0000

shut up terry

By: Terry Matthews

Terry Matthews — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:11:07 +0000

Well, the article is wrong or misleading. I reinstalled Windows on my machine, install the drivers, install a few applications.

WITHOUT installing a virus scanner, Firefox 3 shows that it is scanning every download. Is there some scan built-in to the software, or is this a bug showing that it’s scanning when it isn’t?

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:54:27 +0000

Thanks, man. Honestly, I know what I’m doing on my PC and I don’t need “automatic virus scanning”.