I never knew this about Firefox!

I've been using Ff for years and v3 since whenever, don't use any download managers. I always notice at the end of the download, but before the Sandboxie recover option opens, the file is being scanned. I always just assumed it was an action built into NOD32. I guess not!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159123/safe_downloads.html?tk=rss_howto

 

"If you browse with Firefox 3, you've got added protection. The browser scans downloads--using your own anti-virus software--before it lets you get to the file."

I knew it all along

 

yes it does scan with ur AV, but its pretty useless IMO since any AV should scan the files automatically anyways.

 

... but only on execution?

 

not if ur AV is set to scan on write which a lot are.

 

I think almost all AVs scan when saving a file as well. Just try downloading EICAR Test-virus with your favourite AV, and I'm pretty sure it will be detected immediately.

Personally I fint most functions like these pretty useless (unless you dont have realtime scanning in your AV), and they just slow things down. Thankfully it can be disabled.

 

The "scanWhenDone" option is one of the options I disable right away after installing Firefox. IMHO, it slows down the process of saving a file, especially with big files.

 

Do you know what to disable to make FF load faster? I only use a handful of extensions, and it takes about 17 seconds on the initial loading after I boot up. Loading FF in Sandboxie is rediculous at about 25 seconds. (but it's worth the wait. After it loads it's fast.

 

Some "Scan HTTP traffic - scans all objects entering the user's computer via HTTP protocol." if you set them to do that

 

Useless for me since my AV doesn't scan within compressed files that firefox downloads. Anyone else notice this?

 

How do you turn off the FF3 virus scan? I can't find that setting any where

 

Yes,go to the URL bar and type in "about:config" without the quotes.
hit enter,and you will get a screen that say "This might void your warranty"
Click the box that says "I will be carefull."
Scroll down to: browser.downloadmanger.scanWhenDone.
right click on this line and click toggle,and see that the entry at the end of the string has changed from "true" to "false"
That's it. Your done.

 

aha thx normishmael I didn't think of looking in the about config settings

 

No problem!
Yeah,I turn it off.
It is one of those "Splendid Solutions to a Non-existant Problem"
things.

 

Please be more specific in future titles. It saves a lot of people a lot of useless reading.

 

Thanks normishmael Good Info.

I like the last Line in Your Sig..

 

Honestly though, I just timed the scan of an 12.8Mb Windows Defender download with my cell - 1.27 seconds and I'm not sure it even took that long. Oh yeh, and it was sandboxed, if that could slow it down.