Topic by CAE_Jones 2011-05-08 11:28:11

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My computer recently got back from IT, and since then firefox has been having a very hard time if I try to download anything.

So, I tried to download NVDA in IE, but when it finished, I got an error trying to extract.

I wonder if Firefox isn't confused about how antivirus stuff has changed, but I can't find any settings that control that.
And the problem might be with the file or how my computer reacts to it and not the browsers.
Help?

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Reply by Aprone 2011-05-08 15:07:54

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My guess is that the problem was with the file and not your browsers.  Are you having trouble downloading all files or just the NVDA program?

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Reply by arqmeister 2011-05-08 16:11:12

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If you have norton internet security, it will randomly delete unknown files when you click on the file. I know because i tried to run a PS2 emulater. When i clicked on the .exe file, it vanished.

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Hi,
Are you sure you are download it from
nvda-project.org?

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Reply by CAE_Jones 2011-05-08 22:31:13

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It happens with just about anything I try to download (It took me several tries to get the latest version of Daytona a couple days ago). This only started happening after IT dealt with the virus problem.
They installed Microsoft Security Essentials, which seems to involve a suite of anti-malware tasks... maybe one of those is clashing with something the browser is doing?

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Reply by Aprone 2011-05-08 22:55:34

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CAE_Jones, that seems like a good guess to me.  Maybe try to disable the security suite during your file download, just to see if that is, in fact, the issue.

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Reply by arqmeister 2011-05-09 01:35:01

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While i like anti virus stuf, it seems to be really annoying when it incounters unknown files that you know yourself that the file is fine.

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Reply by Aprone 2011-05-09 01:37:20

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That is precisely another reason I like Avast over some of the other anti-virus titles.  I rarely ever encounter any false positives while using it.  If not for its occasional definition updates, I wouldn't even remember I had it on my system.

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