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Posted by on December 2, 2007, 2:21 pm
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>Earlier this week, my Kaspersky antivirus software starting
>interfering with my launching Firefox 2.0.0.10. This was right after
>FF had upgraded to that version, and Kaspersky was preventing the SSL
>part of FF from loading.
>
>I tried a bunch of things and Kaspersky still flagged FF. I
>eventually "solved" the FF issue by uninstalling and reinstalling it.
>
>But one of the things I did was to download a new version of Stinger
>(3.8.0, built September 10, 2007) and run that. I've run it in normal
>mode and more recently in safe mode, and whenever I've run it, I've
>had problems.
>
>The first times I ran it, it would just stop running while scanning
>the file backup.exe from the program files\MozBackup directory
>(MozBackup was freeware I used once, when porting my Firefox setup
>from an old computer to my current on). I tried uninstalling
>MozBackup and it was reported that "some parts couldn't be
>uninstalled." I finally wound up starting in DOS mode and manually
>deleting the backup.exe file.
>
>After that, each time I ran Stinger, still in normal mode, my computer
>itself would eventually just lock up and I'd have to manually restart
>it (when Stinger would stop running the first times, every other part
>of my computer ran fine, and even in Stinger, I could click on "About"
>or try to stop the scan). This happened several times.
>
>Now today, I have some time on my hands, so I restarted in Safe Mode
>and ran Stinger, and this time it flew through the files it was
>scanning until it got to C:\Program
>Files\MsnMusic26251\MsnMusic.exe and then it just sat there for 20
>minutes until I restarted my computer. MsnMusic is a 536k file that
>it should scan in an eyeblink.
>
>I've used earlier versions of stinger and never had any problems (nor
>have I ever had it detect anything). What's going on here?
>
>My computer is running XP SP2. It's regularly virus scanned by
>Kaspersky every day and has always come up clean (and continues to
>come up clean). Kaspersky also "blessed" the MsnMusic.exe and
>backup.exe files that were stopping stinger. I have regularly-updated
>spybot and ad-aware on my computer and run these once a week, and
>other than benign advertising tracking cookies from my browser, they
>never find anything.
>
>Hope the above information is helpful. Even though I can use my
>computer fine, regularly, I'm bothered that "something" might be wrong
>with it, and I'd like to know what else I can do to investigate.
A bit more information to go with the above:
1. Yes, my system restore is turned off as I run the stinger program.
2. Even in safe mode, with restore turned off, stinger stops running
when it gets to the MsnMusic.exe file, as described above. The
"scanning..." message remains, but nothing else happens. Viewing the
running processes in task manager, there is no indication of a problem
with stinger.
3. I also tried editing the list of what stinger scans - I pulled c:\
off the list and had it just scan the MsnMusic program file folder.
Same problem. So it's not like it's running out of memory. It's
getting stuck on that same file each time.
Again, I can't find anything online posted by anyone else having this
kind of a problem with stinger.
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