Comments on Rambunctious Ramblings: Annoying Open File Security Warning in Windows

Thank you :) I always go searching for this threa...

2009-06-04T17:10:15.816+05:30

Thank you :)

I always go searching for this thread whenever I'm rebuilding a new machine lately..

This dialogue annoys me to tears.

They haven't fixed it in Windows 7 either - totally pathetic and unacceptable for power users.

Commenter Martin, above, has it right: This is a F...

2008-10-15T06:37:00.000+05:30

Commenter Martin, above, has it right: This is a Firefox 3 problem that should be fixed in Firefox 3 by typing about:config into the address bar then changing to FALSE the configuration parameter browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone

For further info, see the following official Firefox documentation: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Download_Manager_preferences

Thanks! Your solution worked for me, and your exp...

2008-08-07T03:48:00.000+05:30

Thanks! Your solution worked for me, and your explanation made a lot of sense.

That's interesting! I installed DownThemAll! recently, that seems to help too :)

Nice post, and thanks for helping solve my problem...

2008-07-20T22:22:00.000+05:30

Nice post, and thanks for helping solve my problem. That pop up window gets very annoying, very fast!

I just got the problem today, but I've not used this computer for a fair while so I had no idea what had caused the problem to start as I've been updating lots of things. I assumed it must have been a windows update, but alas it was Firefox.

I don't like the fact that Firefox now uses windows zone information, but what can you do. I stopped the messages by disabling automatic virus scanning in Firefox preferences as I always manually scan downloads anyway.

Type about:config into the address bar, then put browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone into the filter box and change the value to false. It seems to be working, and saves changing Windows settings.

Thank you so much! I was experiencing exactly this...

2008-07-15T09:21:00.000+05:30

Thank you so much! I was experiencing exactly this problem in WinXP and it was driving me *insane*.