402985 - download manager reports "scanning for viruses" forever

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 401582

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[:glob ✱]

i downloaded the exe referenced in the URL, and the download manager is telling me that it's "scanning for viruses".

this is excellent, except for two issues:
  1. i do not have anti-virus software installed (don't ask, corporate fun)
  2. it's been telling me this for over an hour

firefox hasn't spawned another process, nor does it have an open handle to the file.

the exe is a self-extracting winzip archive; it extracted without issue.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

oh, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110616 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Do you have Windows Defender turned on?

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

> Do you have Windows Defender turned on?

windows defender is turned off.

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

sorry, but i'm unable to reproduce this bug anymore (after a nightly upgrade), so i'm going to mark it as invalid.

sorry about the bugspam.

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified invalid, but do please file new bugs if you can reproduce again.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

See also bug 406494 - we probably need to figure out what to do if the scanning somehow fails, so that we don't get stuck in the "Scanning" state with no way to get out. 

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I'm going to duplicate this to bug 401582, where all the action is :-)