[LINK] Mozilla in the Frontline of CyberWarfare

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
> Their promise to check add-ons is about those that are
> added onto Firefox. AVG is not an add-on. Firefox DOES check any
> add-ons installed and advises of impact.

my two cents worth wrt antivirus programs...

Agree with Jan. AVG and other anti-virus programs in any case often
install PLUG-INs, plug-ins are different beasts than "add ons" (which
is the marketing name for ´extensions´... that is, xul/javascript
third party code packaged as .xpi and providing new functionality to
the browser-).

Anti-virus plug-ins (in any case viewable on firefox when you type
"about:plugins" are something I disable immediately, as they are a
total time waste.

One of these, for instance (could be Avast or AVG, I don´t remember)
proceeds to do a virus scan on EVERY SINGLE FILE that you download
through the browser. Gee, thanks, but no thanks. That´s why the antiv
package includes a resident, on-access scanner. If I´m going to RUN
something, then scan it. If not, don´t make me lose my time attempting
to "scan" the contents of a 300MB source code .zip file !

I´m currently using on my only windows system the free version of
PrevX, a nice antivirus program that is lightweight and does two
things well: scanning and resident (on-access) scanning and that´s it.

FC
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