{"id":3989,"date":"2014-09-29T07:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:18:35","slug":"how-to-disable-malware-protection-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-malware-protection-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Malware Protection in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 32 integrates Google&#8217;s Safe Browsing API with a safe browsing blocklist that identifies potentially malicious executables downloaded by the user. However, the browser is never capable of detecting malicious files successfully. Today when I try to download the freeware fgdump, Firefox keeps blocking it from being downloaded and says &#8220;<em>Blocked: May contain a virus or spyware<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3990\" alt=\"firfox-block-download\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/firfox-block-download.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eventually I find a way to disable the malware protection in Firefox, and I can then download fgdump without any issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Disable Malware Protection in Firefox?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Firefox, open a new tab, then type <code>about:config<\/code> in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.<\/li>\n<li>In the search box above the list, type or paste <code>browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled<\/code> and press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>Double-click the <code>browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled<\/code> preference. It should switch from true to false and regular type to bold.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3991\" alt=\"disable-safebrowsing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/disable-safebrowsing.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Basically, what I would like to do is turn off just the malware protection feature, but leave the other safe-browsing features enabled. If you want to disable all safe-browsing features completely, use the same method above the set <code>browser.safebrowsing.enabled<\/code> to false.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 32 integrates Google&#8217;s Safe Browsing API with a safe browsing blocklist that identifies potentially malicious executables downloaded by the user. However, the browser is never capable of detecting malicious files successfully. Today when I try to download the freeware fgdump, Firefox keeps blocking it from being downloaded and says &#8220;Blocked: May contain a virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,10],"tags":[1892,1893,1891],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-disable-firefox-safebrowsing","tag-firefox-malware-protection","tag-firefox-safebrowsing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}