Firefox 3 is making use of built in virus scanners to scan downloads automatically after they have been fully downloaded to the system. This feature is only available on Windows and if an anti-virus application is installed on the user’s system. While this feature might be a good way to avoid downloading malicious files it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I was looking for a way to automatically scan specific file types immediately after finishing the download instead of scanning them when unpacking or executing them. This way I could sort out malicious files immediately without having to worry about some files that contain viruses or other sorts of malware sitting on my hard drives for a longer period of time.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Tools