Ghacks (one of my favorite reads) has details of a Firefox extension called Download Scan that allows you to virus scan downloads you made through Firefox.

I was looking for a way to automatically scan specific file types immediately after finishing the download instead of scanning them when unpacking or executing them. This way I could sort out malicious files immediately without having to worry about some files that contain viruses or other sorts of malware sitting on my hard drives for a longer period of time.

The Firefox extension “Download Scan” sends a request to a scanner whenever a download of a certain file type has finished. The scanner will then scan the file and report back as usual if viruses, trojans or other malicious code has been found.

Good idea ... and from the initial testing I've done of it it seems to work nicely!  Although I guess that you could have problems setting it up if depending on the AV scanner you use (seems to work fine with Kaspersky, Norton AntiVirus and Sophos).

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