Ben Bucksch wrote: > But we can, on installation or startup, check, if one of the problematic > AV packages is running and warn the user using a dialog box. We do > something like that, if the user tries to install Mozilla with another > Mozilla running.
That would be a reasonable interim solution. I see a couple of problems with this approach though. It doesn't address what happens if a user installs the AV app after Mozilla has been installed. It also doesn't take into account new AV apps that simply don't yet exist. Too big a market not to assume that more folks are going to want to play in this space. Although I believe we have a farily repeatable glitch here, there is one key piece of information we don't have. Which AV apps do play nice with Mozilla? I know I chose InnoculateIT based on it's merits rather than it's price. Norton's AV was bogging some of the slower Celeron boxes in my company way down. McAfee didn't have a solid means of auto updating, which is critical when ya got one geek and a bunch of users. Some of the smaller players I simply didn't think they'd be as up to date with definitions, or be around for the long haul. Has anyone been in direct contact with Symantec or any of these other players? Seems like this should come from someone who is officially a part of the Mozilla project or Netscape rather than just some user type like myself. Might even be able to get some sample virii to play with. Later on, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
