280196 - Antivirus program should be called to scan completed downloads by FireFox Download Manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103487

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[csalsa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

After FireFox Download Manager completes downloadning any file, it should launch
antivus prgram (assumed installed) to scan the file.

I would be content if this was done by a FireFox plugin.

This is a common feature of other download managers such as GetRight.  And in a
world of viruses, trojans and other nasties, the sooner any new file to my
machine is scanned, the happier I will be.

I am unaware of cross-platforms needs as I am a Windows user.  But I feel virus
scanning is a missing feature that is important to the security of my machine -
especially on a Windows machine  ;-).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, please look before you file a bug. This is a dupe of bug 103487, and
there's already an extension that does this :
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/downscan/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103487 ***

Comment 2

[csalsa]

My apologies for creating a duplicate bug.  I realise duplicates waste peoples'
valuable time.  I did search for the keyword 'virus' before creating this
enhancement report.  I got no results for my search (which did surprise me at
the time).

I have now looked at the other bug 103487.