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When I try to download this mod(I know the mod is safe), it freezes when the download is finished and says scanning for viruses, then when i go to the folder, i can't open or delete or do anything to the file, it just freezes. It has only done this when i

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When I try to download this mod(I know the mod is safe), it freezes when the download is finished and says scanning for viruses, then when i go to the folder, i can't open or delete or do anything to the file, it just freezes. It has only done this when i try to download this mod, but i know it can't be the mod because i have had this mod before. Other downloads work fine though, but when i have downloaded something like a mod(any, not just this one) to a game, it does this.

== After one of the last few updates, not too sure which one.

When I try to download this mod(I know the mod is safe), it freezes when the download is finished and says scanning for viruses, then when i go to the folder, i can't open or delete or do anything to the file, it just freezes. It has only done this when i try to download this mod, but i know it can't be the mod because i have had this mod before. Other downloads work fine though, but when i have downloaded something like a mod(any, not just this one) to a game, it does this. == After one of the last few updates, not too sure which one.

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It's your anti-virus not working correctly while scanning. You can turn off the option to scan in Firefox's about:config by filtering for browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone and double-clicking that line to change the value to false

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Ok so that will make it work then?

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Ok that didn't work. I tried to turn the scanning off, and it did turn off, but it still froze up.