Why are you scanning my downloads for viruses?  And what are you using to scan them?  My guess would be that it’s not using some sort of internal antivirus since it’s not constantly downloading definition files.  So that would lead me to believe that it’s somehow hooking in to the antivirus I’ve got installed on my system.  My next question is: what’s the point?  Antivirus software performs on-access scanning, so won’t it scan that file itself when it’s done downloading anyways?  And at the very least, it will scan the file when I try to run it.  So why does Firefox need to be scanning it as well?  Fortunately there’s a way to turn it off so that you don’t get that 10 second lag at the end of each download.

• In Firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit enter
• Type browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone into the Filter box
• Double click the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone item that shows up in the list to set it’s Value to false

So I sit down this morning and check my Gmail, as per usual, and I find the May newsletter for Mozy (the software that I use to back up my home computer) sitting in my inbox.  The subject of the newsletter is “[Mozy] May Newsletter – Mac Launch & Canada Vacation”.  The “Mac Launch” part I get, because they’ve just released v1.0 of their app for Mac’s, but what’s with the “Canada Vacation” part?  It looks like a blog post that somehow got copied and pasted into the newsletter.  See the image below and you’ll probably be wondering the same thing.