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General Discussion => Unwashed Village => Topic started by: Brugdor on July 23, 2009, 01:54:14 AM

Title: Good grief, what a pain in the rear
Post by: Brugdor on July 23, 2009, 01:54:14 AM

The last couple of weeks I've been getting progressively worse problems with Firefox all of a sudden becoming unable to connect to anything. There would still be a process for it running and Vista would NOT end the process or the process tree for it. Also, the machine wouldn't reset through the menu because of that Firefox still running. I'd have to go over and hit the reset button.

The last couple of days it's gotten really bad. So I started searching around for others having the issue. I finally tracked down some message board threads that had narrowed it down to the latest version of Zonealarm. As of a few minutes ago, I've uninstalled it and I'll see now if I get the same issue. I had even uninstalled Firefox and tried using IE (ugh, I weep for those still using that piece of poop) but that started having the same issues.

The only other thing I've seen suggested is that it could be malware. However several AV programs were listed that would find it, I downloaded one of them, and it found nothing.

So if this is happening to you and you have ZA, try removing that first.

Title: Re: Good grief, what a pain in the rear
Post by: KMD on July 28, 2009, 04:28:38 PM

Thanks for the help. I 've been having the same problem a few times, nothing bad, but it did get pretty annoying.

Title: Re: Good grief, what a pain in the rear
Post by: Brugdor on July 28, 2009, 08:10:37 PM

NP, glad I could help someone avoid the headache. Incidentally, I still haven't had any more occurrences of that issue.