Firefox Advises Users To Disable McAfee Plugin 213
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."
just go all the way and uninstall Mcafee (Score:5, Insightful)
It's just as bad as norton.
Re:just go all the way and uninstall Mcafee (Score:3, Insightful)
If it is as bad as Norton then uninstalling it might not be the easiest task.
Hmm, time to shell out for the anti-anti-virus software.
Let the truth finally come to light (Score:5, Insightful)
I say this so often it should be in my sig... There is absurdly little difference between so-called "anti-virus" and desktop "internet security" products and the malware from which they are supposed to protect you. When family members ask me how I manage to happily use a 5 year-old PC that seems to be faster than their 1-2 year-old PC, I simply say "I don't have anti-virus installed"
Re:just go all the way and uninstall Mcafee (Score:3, Insightful)
Just upgrade your computer. Introduce your hardware to Linux - it's a match made in heaven.
dd if=urandom of=sda1
reboot
install