Spybot is good at protecting you from these things if you immunize,
but it's never been great at fixing things once you get infected. But
at least if you have a clue what you have you can do some web searches
and hopefully remove the stuff manually. Or, don't waste a lot of time
and just format
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your suggestion.? Yes, I did reboot, but that didn't help.? I
wasn't aware of the ability to start FF in safe mode, and I'll keep that in
mind for the future.?
However, when I ran Spybot SD it
Spybot is known to cause problems when you use its immunize feature.
db
Tony B wrote:
Spybot is good at protecting you from these things if you immunize,
but it's never been great at fixing things once you get infected. But
at least if you have a clue what you have you can do some web searches
Please expand. Aside from blocking malware, what problems have you
heard about? Anything I can reproduce in (Safer(DropMyRights))
Firefox?
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spybot is known to cause problems when you use its immunize feature.
Rebooted?
In official Windows speak this is called restart. It is amazing how
often rebooting fixes things and how often people forget to try this
first.
Next is to try starting FFx in safe mode. Get to this via Start All
Programs Mozilla FireFox Mozilla FireFox (safe mode). This will offer
Thanks for your suggestion.? Yes, I did reboot, but that didn't help.? I
wasn't aware of the ability to start FF in safe mode, and I'll keep that in
mind for the future.?
However, when I ran Spybot SD it indicated that I had the malware
Smitfraud-C.gp and an infected C:\Windows\svchost.exe
I was using Firefox 3.0.x and either accidentally closed it or something
else closed it, and when I clicked on the icon to restart it I heard disk
action
but the program didn't run. Thinking that something might have been
corrupted, I used IE to go to mozilla.com and downloaded and
Have you rebooted?
Richard P.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using Firefox 3.0.x and either accidentally closed it or something
else closed it, and when I clicked on the icon to restart it I heard disk
action
but the program
Rebooted?
- Original Message -
From: Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:12 PM
Subject: [CGUYS] Mozilla stopped working
I was using Firefox 3.0.x and either accidentally closed it or something
else
