728024 - Block McAfee ScriptScan for Firefox 14.4.1(?)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #727938 +++

Bug 727938 was about McAfee ScriptScan and McAfee Site Advisor.  I'm splitting the two concerns.  This bug is just about ScriptScan.

Site Advisor is definitely leaking (see bug 727938), but I couldn't find where to install ScriptScan.  Anyone know?  We need to confirm this before taking any action such as blocklisting.

Comment 1

[Naer Chang]

I have done some test on win7 x86 (VMware) and I can’t reproduce any problem with just Script Scanner (SS) installed (no SiteAdvisor). You can't install SS by itself but it comes with McAfee VirusScan.

Test:
1)	Home page is google.com when FF is first launched – wait a bit
2)	Launch 7 more tabs (cnn.com, msn.com, news.com, yahoo.com, tomshardware.com, anandtech.com, ebay.com)
3)	Open a new tab and close the first tab (google.com), this way no page is loaded because new tab is empty.
4)	Wait a bit

SS is disabled: ~55MB (start) to ~85MB (end)
SS is enabled: ~55MB to ~85MB

Strangely memory usage goes up when I start closing tabs (highest I got is 298MB) although it will go down eventually.

I couldn't see any noticeable performance different