Doesn't rename .part extention after download

Frequently Firefox 4 (betas and now RC) gives an error message that it can't save a file after downloading it. What actually happens is that after the download is complete it doesn't rename the file to eliminate the .part extension. If I manually rename the file it is fine. There is nothing wrong with the downloaded file, it just couldn't be renamed.
This does not happen all the time. Tried disabling add-ons, no effect. Allowed Firefox through Win 7 firewall. That helped, I think, but it's an intermittent problem so it's hard to be sure. But I was uncomfortable allowing a browser to bypass the firewall. Seemed risky.

OK, now I have finally, finally fixed this problem. I got rid of Free Download Manager. It was slick, but overkill for simple downloads. I went back to the native Firefox download manager and did the following...
The problem was indeed that the anti-virus would try to scan the temporary .part file before it was fully written. This created a conflict as two programs fought over access to the same file. So I set my anti-virus to exclude files with a .part extension. The file is still scanned, however, after the download completed and the extension gets changed to .exe
Works fine now.

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