Michael Collette wrote: >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. >> >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. > That's why I added "or startup" (meaning start of mozilla.exe).
>It also doesn't take >into account new AV apps that simply don't yet exist. > I don't think we have to assume bugs in apps that don't exist yet. >Which AV apps do play nice with Mozilla? > No idea, but I'd check out ones that *can* scan and process MIME and mbox mailboxes (instead of simply deleting or moving them). Using any AV software with less dangerous *settings* (move/rename instead of delete; ask first) should help a lot also. >I know I chose InnoculateIT based on it's merits rather than it's price. > Take a look at <http://www.free-av.com>. >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. > Well, I have never heard of InnoculateIT before, either.
