John Doue wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Alwil Avast 4.8
Seamonkey 1.1.14
XP-Pro SP3.
I had to uninstall Avast AV 4.8 and reinstall it.
As a result of this activity, three changes happened to Seamonkey.
1) ALL my stored passwords disappeared; 2) ALL my stored and
perpetual cookies disappeared; 3) My SSL settings were reset to
give all warnings.
Riddle me that? What does Avast have to do with Seamonkey (and
why/how could it make those changes)?
I was able to restore passwords/cookies by pulling up last night's
backup for the xxxxxx.s file, rename the current file, rename the
restored file with the current .s file name. All was returned to
normal.
why don't you ask them?: http://forum.avast.com/index.php
I asked and was answered:
Simply - avast does not make these changes to browsers, and avast
never has a clue what POP mail client is being used and does not
make any changes to them. avast's interaction with browsers is
limited to intercepting the http calls it makes at the network
level and the same goes for the unsecured POP/SMTP calls of mail
clients, again at the network level. avast knows nothing of the
internal working of any given browser or mail client.
I think that there is a probability during the changes you were
making to get the USB drive installed SeaMonkey may have had
difficulty getting to the stored profile information for your
browser and email client and created a new clean profile.
So, if Avast did not cause this, and the timing was just
coincidental, what would cause Seamonkey to "burp" as it did?
how are we supposed to know. You gave one story to the SM support
group, and another to the avast forum. Whats this all about: "you
were making to get the USB drive installed."
Peter,
Always happy to have your input.
I uninstalled Avast to troubleshoot whether Avast was scanning a new
USB hang-on HDD during the boot-up sequence. When connected, Windows
was taking an additional minute to boot to the desk top. There was no
change in the boot-up behavior with the USB HDD whether or not Avast
was installed.
With all respect, anything related to the hang-on drive is a red
herring. The new drive had been connected for 10 days with no issues
with Seamonkey. I uninstalled Avast to see if I could find the source
of the elongated boot-up. Avast was not involved. Western Digital tech
support stated it was Windows XP "recognizing" the drive and loading
drivers that caused the expanded boot-up. All of this has no apparent
bearing on loosing the passwords, cookies, and sll settings. So, if
uninstall-install Avast is coincidental, I won't argue. Still, I'd
like to understand why/how Seamonkey got scrambled.
I am not sure this has some relevance but two AV I recently tried
(should have noted their names) considered Seamonkey.exe as a virus and
unceremoniously deleted it, with no possibility to recover it! Deleted
cookies could have been considered spyware. But I have no explanation
for the missing xxxxxx.s.
Are you sure you did not do something to your profiles, and did you
actually search all partitions for the missing files? Sometimes, Windows
gets confused when you insert an external drive, and drive letters can
get changed without you realizing it immediately.
The only subdirectory that xxxx.s files reside is in the
xxxx.slt subdirectory. There are several *.s files with
several dates, one going back two years, one four years old.
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