XP SP2 blocks Firefox download

Post #171,216 by andread 8/27/04 10:55:51 AM Reply	XP SP2 blocks Firefox download over lunch yesterday a colleague said that if you install XP SP2 and then try to download Mozilla Firefox you will get a warning that the software may damage Windows and you have to do some re-configuring before you can download it ? A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #171,249 by Steve Lowe 8/27/04 12:36:52 PM Reply	Re: XP SP2 blocks Firefox download interesting. I was thinking that it was an IE security setting for .exe files...but I just went and tried to download another .exe from download.com and got no message. I'm wondering if it's not intentional FUD just like the DR-DOS days. -- Steve
Post #171,284 by Arkadiy 8/27/04 1:55:07 PM Reply	Could it be looking for linking to sockets DLL? -- "...was poorly, lugubrious and intoxicated." -- Patrick O'Brian, "Master and Commander"
Post #171,260 by pwhysall 8/27/04 1:13:50 PM Reply	Well, it doesn't. And it didn't. No warning presented. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #171,266 by hnick 8/27/04 1:20:51 PM Reply	Only natural It's afraid to piss you off. It just toys with the rest of us... except me, and that's only because I don't have an XP machine at the moment.
Post #171,297 by Steve Lowe 8/27/04 2:16:08 PM Reply	did for me.. opened the new 'info bar' thing with the warning XP pro SP2, IE6 Just tried again and figured out what's happening. Clicking the windows download link ([link\|http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.3/FirefoxSetup-0.9.3.exe\|http://ftp.mozilla.o...oxSetup-0.9.3.exe]) from [link\|http://www.mozilla.org/\|http://www.mozilla.org/] The file downloads as expected. However, going to the Firefox page ([link\|http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/\|http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/]) and click 'Download now' generates the message. The message is generated because the 'download now' link brings up yet another page which automatically requests the download. It is a security feature because the user didn't actually request the file to be downloaded, the browser did. -- Steve

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