Firefox Advises Users To Disable McAfee Plugin

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @10:01AM from the one-or-the-other dept.

itwbennett writes "Mozilla is advising Firefox users to disable McAfee's ScriptScan software, saying that it could cause 'stability or security problems.' ScriptScan, which ships with McAfee's VirusScan antivirus program, is designed to keep Web surfers safe by scanning for any malicious scripting code that might be running in the browser. But according to Mozilla, it has an unintended side-effect: It can cause Firefox to crash ... a lot."

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Re:just go all the way and uninstall Mcafee (Score:4, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @10:08AM (#37611848)

If it is as bad as Norton then uninstalling it might not be the easiest task.

Obligatory punctuation Nazi comment (Score:2, Informative)

by John Jorsett ( 171560 ) writes: on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @10:13AM (#37611908)

program, is designed to keep Web surfer's safe
Keep his safe where?
S'erious'ly, do people ju'st put in apo'strophe's around random s's the'se day's?

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