McAfee and Firefox

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Mike Goodman

I recently made Mozilla Firefox my default browser. Now I find that McAfee
Viruscan doesn't support Firefox --- I can't download updates to it. Anyone
else have this problem, and know of antivirus software that works with
Firefox?

Thanks, Mike
 
Mike said:
I recently made Mozilla Firefox my default browser. Now I find that
McAfee Viruscan doesn't support Firefox --- I can't download
updates to it.
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Updates to "it"? What? McAfee or Firefox?
Anyone else have this problem, and know of antivirus software that
works with Firefox?
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Firefox is a browser. What would an anti-virus program have to do with it?

FWIW, I (mostly) use Firefox to browse, Thunderbird for mail and
news, Avast! for a-v, Kerio for firewall, and all work fine together.
 
Mike Goodman said:
I recently made Mozilla Firefox my default browser. Now I find that McAfee
Viruscan doesn't support Firefox --- I can't download updates to it. Anyone
else have this problem, and know of antivirus software that works with
Firefox?

Thanks, Mike
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I use AVG, http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ and have Firefox 1.0

McAfee's web site does seem to be coded for IE. (example:
http://download.mcafee.com/us/?cid=10372) .
Sites will be dropping IE specific coding when enough people, but especially
businesses, turn away from IE.
--
Dave
Central Mass. USA

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mailinator.com with email.com
 
Dave said:
McAfee's web site does seem to be coded for IE. (example:
http://download.mcafee.com/us/?cid=10372) .
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What specifically did you see at that page that was IE-centric? I do
see some JavaScript that says:

var isNS = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1 );
var isIE = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1 );

...but doesn't appear to do anything unusual afterwards. It does rely
on cookies.

If you find a site that does, use Firefox's "spoof UA" to get by it.
Easy to access if you have the Mozilla PrefBar extension.
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/images/prefbar.png
Sites will be dropping IE specific coding when enough people, but
especially businesses, turn away from IE.
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The sooner the better... Frequently, I leave messages for the company
regarding IE-only code.
 
Some av won't work without IE. It's crazy and contradictory but
what else is new in this nutty arena? :)
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Well, that's absurd. :-) I surely wouldn't use one like that. Is the
current McAfee one of them, and is there documentation to that effect?
 
I'm using Firefox as default and Mcafee 9 together fine. IE is still
installed but just there for emergencies. What version McAfee do you have.
 
Hi all.....

My *infamous brother-in-law* who can muck up just about anything on a
computer has told me that McAfee (which came with his new XP/Pentium
computer) will NOT allow him to download EZ Trust.....Zone Alarm.....or any
other security program. I didn't believe him at first cuz he is the only
person I know that could screw up downloading F-Prot, grin!! A long story
and I won't go into it.

So.....any of you McAfee experts out there....is this true? First of all,
he had paid for a year of EZ Trust, but couldn't download it after the 3
months were up for the trial of McAfee.....so paid for a year of McAfee
rather than let me figure it out for him.

I told him to download the free EZ Armor from Microsoft....he says he can't.
Doesn't tell me what errors he gets. I was going to put EZ Trust on a CD
and have him load it....but he will have to get rid of McAfee first. But
will this work? You need a serial number to activate EZ Armor.

I don't know how on earth he can muck up the simplest things.....and then go
on and muck them up more. Other than he is a total ditzbrain with computers
and won't listen to moi....a mere woman. (VBG) Until he gets things so
screwed up that I throw up my hands in disgust!!

Anyone else have this problem?? Or is he just doing something wrong, as
usual.

Happy New Year.......Heather
 
Beauregard said:
Updates to "it"? What? McAfee or Firefox?
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clicking on update links to open pages in firefox that require IE's
non-standard technologies is probably what mike is talking about...
Firefox is a browser. What would an anti-virus program have to do with it?
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plenty... i had mcafee on my work pc and it was the bane of my existence...

av makers that move to an IE based webUI for their products should have
their heads examined... everytime it tried to show any kind of user
interface it kept asking me (multiple times per instance) whether i
wanted to run this script or that activex control...

bad enough to have a brain-dead website that requires IE, but to change
the client-side application so that it's UI depends on IE's rendering
engine is absurd...
FWIW, I (mostly) use Firefox to browse, Thunderbird for mail and
news, Avast! for a-v, Kerio for firewall, and all work fine together.
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i use mozilla to browse (i won't change to firefox until the firefox
people wake up and put google search capabilities back into the address
bar), mozilla for mail and news (there aren't many compelling reasons
to go for thunderbird yet), mozilla for calendar, mozilla for contacts,
mozilla composer for rich content documents (where rich content is that
which cannot be produced and rendered by notepad), f-prot for
anti-virus and kerio for software firewall...
 
kurt wismer said:
i use mozilla to browse (i won't change to firefox until the firefox
people wake up and put google search capabilities back into the address
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bar),> --

Kurt......I have been using the new Firefox 1.0 and it does have the Google
Search in the address bar.....it is much better than the beta one. I had
problems with bookmarks in the earlier one.

Heather
 
try the extention "ieview" it allows you to load the page you are
viewing with ie....i use it when viewing poorly designed pages that
firefox cant read... it may help...
 
i use mozilla to browse (i won't change to firefox until
the firefox people wake up and put google search
capabilities back into the address bar), mozilla for mail
and news (there aren't many compelling reasons
-snip-
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Kurt,

FF has Google search bar (which I took out but that's another
story).

J
 
Kurt,

FF has Google search bar (which I took out but that's another
story).
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which is big enough for what? one word? 2 if they're small... no
thanks... not big enough for the kinds of queries i often perform...

it's also less convenient than being able to enter a google query
directly into the address bar...
 
Heather said:
bar),> --

Kurt......I have been using the new Firefox 1.0 and it does have the Google
Search in the address bar.....it is much better than the beta one. I had
problems with bookmarks in the earlier one.
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i just installed it and tried - no joy... maybe there's some chrome one
can edit to get the google search in the address bar (rather than the
google search *beside* the address bar) but it's not turned on by
default and there's nothing under 'Options...' for it either...
 
had problems with bookmarks in the earlier one.
i just installed it and tried - no joy... maybe there's some chrome one
can edit to get the google search in the address bar (rather than the
google search *beside* the address bar) but it's not turned on by
default and there's nothing under 'Options...' for it either...
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Oops.....sorry, Kurt....I misunderstood you. Yes, there is a very small
Google search bar beside the address bar, but I usually forget it is there
and use the regular Google.

Cheers......Heather
 
which is big enough for what? one word? 2 if they're
small... no thanks... not big enough for the kinds of
queries i often perform...
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It's size can be changed.
it's also less convenient than being able to enter a google
query directly into the address bar...
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Ditto here. So I enter directly into the address bar, e.g.,
goo freeware adware spyware
where "goo" represents a bookmark
http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s
with Keyword=goo

J
 
Heather wrote:
[snip]
Oops.....sorry, Kurt....I misunderstood you. Yes, there is a very small
Google search bar beside the address bar, but I usually forget it is there
and use the regular Google.
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no problem... i just hope the firefox people hurry up and figure out
that mozilla's google search interface is better for power
googling/google hacking... after all, power users like me are the early
adopters of these 'alternative browsers' (among other things) - i'd
hate to think they're forgetting about us now that they're becoming
mainstream...
 
kurt wismer said:
(e-mail address removed) wrote: [snip]
Kurt,

FF has Google search bar (which I took out but that's
another story).
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which is big enough for what? one word? 2 if they're
small... no thanks... not big enough for the kinds of
queries i often perform...
Click to expand...

It's size can be changed.
Click to expand...

so far i've been unable to do so, but even so it would only expand at
the expense of the address bar or the screen real estate required for
another toolbar layer...
Ditto here. So I enter directly into the address bar, e.g.,
goo freeware adware spyware
where "goo" represents a bookmark
http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s
with Keyword=goo
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while i do use keyword bookmarks for certain things (like searching
vgrep), i find mozilla's google search interface is *still* better
because not only do i not have to type the extra characters for the
bookmark keyword, i don't have to remember what they keyword is
either... realistically the most meaningful (and therefore easiest to
remember) keyword would be 'google', and that would be an additional 7
(6 + 1 space) characters to type... a pain in the butt when you're
doing multiple searches (refining the query)...

i don't understand why they took the feature out of firefox and made
searching a separate UI control - that just leads to a cluttered
interface... what's next? will they take the mapquest integration out
of the address book?
 
Conor said:
Clue:

You can type as many characters as you want in it.
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yeah, i just can't see all of them at once...

hey, we don't need multiple lines on our screens, we just need one and
the ability to scroll up and down, right? like those old electric
typewriters... very useful...
 
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