DavidR
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I think the scanWhenDone is more gimmick than use, certainly in the case of avast! as any download using http will be scanned by the web shield and newly created files (those downloaded) depending on file type would be scanned by the file system shield.
That is why I set the scanWhenDone to false when it first cam out on firefox, this before I found out it didn’t work.
Many people already use download managers or firefox add-on (the extend the basic firefox download function) which you can actually set them to do that if you wish (adding the full path to ashquick.exe). But what probably hacked me of was the impudence of Mozilla to set this scanWhenDone to true by default, when there is no GUI option to disable it. The user has to be know about the setting on how to reverse it using about:config.