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Firefox 3 virus scanning ability

I have an idea that I've been throwing around since learning that Firefox 3 scans downloaded files ( http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/04/disable-automatic-virus-scanning-in-fir... ), using locally installed virus scanning software... that is, is there a way to change that setting in order to stipulate that Firefox Portable use ClamWin Portable instead? This way, Firefox Portable 3 would still be entirely portable, instead of relying on software (virus scanner) installed on the local machine.

So far all I've come up with is to use Download Statusbar ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26 ) , and set the "Anti-Virus program location" as your copy of ClamWinPortable.exe. There are two problems that I've identified so far:

1) you must know the commands to pass along in the "Arguments" field ( http://dlstatusbar.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=dlscan&action=display... or type "clamwinportable.exe --help" (w/o quotes) in a command prompt which is currently in the folder which contains clamwinportable.exe), and

2) the addon requires the full path be specified, and not just the relative path.

I would imagine there might be an entry in about:config, but so far I've found nothing.

Any ideas, anyone??? I think this is a worthwhile question, as it affects the portability of everyone's beloved Firefox Portable. Opinions?

P.S. - a related idea: once this concept is accomplished, go the next step and have ClamWin auto-update before scanning any downloaded files. So far I have ClamWin do this anyhow (see below), but I'm not yet sure how you might implement this when it auto-scans downloaded files.

Create a batch file, located in the root of the folder containing ClamWinPortable.exe, with the following contents:

start /wait ClamWinPortable.exe --mode=update --close
start ClamWinPortable.exe

Launch ClamWin using that batch file.

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No longer works! It appears

No longer works! It appears (fromt he last thread @ dlstatusbar forum noted above - http://bit.ly/KS2vk) that it no longer likes the "=" in the suggested arguments to make this work. Does anyone have a workaround or identified another option?

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[quote author=KillerD

[quote author=KillerD board=dlscan thread=696 post=4350 time=1227649724]The correct command which works is:

"-d c:\docume~1\alluse~1\.clamwin\db %1"

if you want a log to see if everything is working, try:

"-d c:\docume~1\alluse~1\.clamwin\db --verbose -l c:\log.txt %1"

The problem is ClamScan does not like the windows directory naming system but prefers [b]DOS 8.3 file/directory naming system[/b].

I.E - no spaces, thus no quotes.
[/quote]

The quote above is fromt he dlstatusbar forum again. Not sure how to make the slution portable though. Any help would be appreciated.

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