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Citizen
Username: Scubadiver
Post Number: 37
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 5:41 pm: |     |
I just found out from McAfee that their Virusscan and Firewall won't work with Firefox as the default Browser (they say it must be used with Internet Explorer). The automatic virus threats won't update.
For those using Firefox as their browser, what virus/firewall protection software do you use?
any other suggestions? |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5282
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 5:44 pm: | |
The firewall that's built into the Mac OS X operating system. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5492
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 6:17 pm: | |
Cute, Dave.
E, I'm not totally sure what that means, but I doubt it means you are giving up all the product's detection if you use Firefox. After all, bad stuff comes in through various means, and the browser is just one of them. If the product secured only the browser, your computer is still open to attacks. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1452
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 11:17 am: | |
Basically the McAfee software needs to connect to the internet once in a while in order to download new Virus detection updates. To do this it uses your default browser and its drivers. McAfee does not work with Firefox so the updates don’t happen.
If you want to use McAfee and not set the default browser to IE, you will just need to go to the McAfee website once in a while for the updates. It’s a pain but doable.
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2263
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2005 - 10:21 am: | |
Don't know what this means, but it sounds important!
Hi. This is a newsletter update by Brian Livingston from the Windows
Secrets Newsletter.
1. Firefox 1.0.1 is released to fix security holes
The Mozilla Foundation released on Feb. 24 Firefox 1.0.1, a security
upgrade for its wildly successful 1.0 browser. More than 25 million
people have downloaded 1.0 since its release on Nov. 9, according to
the foundation.
I immediately felt that the security improvements in Firefox 1.0.1
warranted me publishing a newsletter update. But I held off until
now because installation problems were causing severe confusion. I
found it extremely difficult to nail down the best upgrade procedure.
Firefox 1.0's "check for updates" feature, for example, didn't report
that any Firefox updates were available for six days after 1.0.1
became available. The foundation had kept the feature from reporting
the existence of this update because of concern that 25 million
people downloading the update simultaneously couldn't be supported by
the existing infrastructure. This problem was apparently solved by
Mar. 1, and checking for updates now reports that 1.0.1 is ready.
Rumors had also been flying that installing 1.0.1 required that
Firefox 1.0 first be uninstalled. It's now clear that uninstalling
1.0 is necessary only if you want to install a ".exe" version of
1.0.1 over an instance of Firefox 1.0 that you obtained in a ".zip"
file. Downloading 1.0.1 and installing it on top of a 1.0 .exe setup
file you downloaded (as most people did) is fine. We've tested this
and it works without deleting any bookmarks or Firefox extensions.
I recommend that Firefox 1.0 users upgrade to 1.0.1 immediately. The
new version fixes a security problem with international domain names
(IDN). The address bar can appear to show "paypay.com," for example,
by composing a domain name of look-alike Unicode characters. Some
registrars, unfortunately, are selling Unicode domain names that look
identical to ASCII domains. Firefox 1.0.1 cures this by displaying
all Unicode in "punycode," a plain-text equivalent. The punycode for
the PayPal fake wouldn't fool anyone: "www.xn--pypal-4ve.com". This
is a better fix than the two workarounds we published in the paid
version of the Feb. 10 and 24 newsletters.
Firefox 1.0.1 also closes 16 other bugs, some of them potentially
serious security weaknesses. This update is a good one to have.
Here, therefore, are the steps I recommend for this upgrade:
1. Read the Firefox 1.0.1 release-notes page carefully to see if any
issues affect you:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
2. To be safe, back up your PC, or at least make a copy of Firefox's
Profiles folder, which contains your bookmarks and other settings.
The location of the Profiles folder differs in various versions of
Windows. See the release-notes page for the exact location.
3. In Firefox 1.0, click Tools, Extensions and make a note of any
extensions you've installed. After upgrading to Firefox 1.0.1, you
may need to re-enable or re-install one or more extensions.
4. Close the Extensions window. In Firefox 1.0, click Tools,
Options, Advanced. In the Software Update section, make sure
"Periodically check for updates to Firefox" is ON. Click the "Check
Now" button. A window should open to announce that a 1.0.1 ".exe"
file is ready to download. Download this file, which will save itself
to your Desktop and then start to install. You'll need to close any
open Firefox window when prompted to do so.
5. The download process may present you with Firefox 1.0.1 in a
language other than your preferred one (for example, en-US for U.S.
English instead of it-IT for Italian). If so, halt the download and
go to the foundation's All Downloads page, which offers language-
specific versions (note: British English is not yet available):
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html
6. If you're running the ".exe" upgrade, but you originally installed
Firefox 1.0 from a ".zip" file, you'll need to halt the upgrade and
uninstall Firefox 1.0 before continuing. Running the ".exe" file to
upgrade a version of Firefox 1.0 you originally installed from a
".exe" file, however, doesn't require uninstalling anything. (Some
people recommend uninstalling *any* program before you install a new
version, but this seems unnecessary.)
7. After Firefox 1.0.1 is installed, make sure your bookmarks are
still intact and check that your extensions still work. If an
extension isn't certified to work with 1.0.1, Firefox may disable it.
In that case, click Tools, Extensions and try to download a new
version of the extension. (We'll print in the Mar. 10 newsletter a
way to make any Firefox 1.0 extension run in 1.0.1, even if it hasn't
been certified to run in 1.0.1 by its developer yet.)
8. If you installed Firefox 1.0.1 over 1.0, the Add/Remove Programs
applet in your Control Panel will show two uninstallers: one for
"Mozilla Firefox (1.0)" and one for "Mozilla Firefox (1.0.1)."
Running either routine at this point will uninstall Firefox 1.0.1.
This is a known bug. Don't run either uninstall routine unless you
want to uninstall Firefox 1.0.1.
That's it. In my opinion, the Mozilla Foundation should have written
better instructions and made the process much smoother for Firefox
users that they did. Hopefully, this will open the foundation's eyes
to the usability problems that can arise with even a minor upgrade.
One fundamental issue with Firefox 1.x, which both Paul Thurrott and
I have written about previously, is that it doesn't offer the kind of
tools that Internet Explorer does for deploying the browser in a
corporate environment.
The best method I've seen for doing this has been described by a
Firefox user who modified the FFDeploy routine. The procedure is
explained on the independent Microsoft Software Forum Network:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40138&st=0&p=279478&#entry279478
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5700
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2005 - 11:12 am: | |
LibraryLady, it means that if you use Firefox, you should upgrade to version 1.0.1 so you don't get phished. |
Beans
Citizen
Username: Nalini
Post Number: 71
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 4, 2005 - 10:27 am: | |
I justed downloaded Mozilla and my Norton does not work. It wouldn't update the virus definition. I am thinking of switching to a MAC since i don't hear of this issue |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1092
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 4, 2005 - 11:49 pm: | |
Did you try my suggestion here? http://www.southorangevillage.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=3137&post=361741#POST3617 41 |
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