MS Antispyware Kills Firefox

[DaveinPhoenix]

How unfair....

On my laptop using WinXP SP2, after installing Mircosoft Antispyware
(which I like and found things others didn't) Firefox intermitantly
would not load. It would start to and then stop (hourglass fires for a
few seconds and stops).

On first day or so, sometimes firefox worked sometimes it didn't. Then
when didn't work a reboot would bring it back.

Today, nothing would make firefox load - except rebooting after
removing gcasServ from the startup in msconfig. This seems to be what
launches MS Antispyware since its in its directory as an .exe file.

On my Dell PC, they play along fine together. I wouldn't think MS
would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
antispyware

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Microsoft's AntiSpyware program should not be interfering with
a third-party browser. Apparently, you some other issue.

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| How unfair....
|
| On my laptop using WinXP SP2, after installing Mircosoft Antispyware
| (which I like and found things others didn't) Firefox intermitantly
| would not load. It would start to and then stop (hourglass fires for a
| few seconds and stops).
|
| On first day or so, sometimes firefox worked sometimes it didn't. Then
| when didn't work a reboot would bring it back.
|
| Today, nothing would make firefox load - except rebooting after
| removing gcasServ from the startup in msconfig. This seems to be what
| launches MS Antispyware since its in its directory as an .exe file.
|
| On my Dell PC, they play along fine together. I wouldn't think MS
| would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
| antispyware

 

[Woody]

<I wouldn't think MS
would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
antispyware
you wouldn't? i would . just look back on their record of how they've
treated other competitors .

 

[Andrew Murray]

If they did it intentionally to get a monoply hold on the market, sounds
like time for another law suit....don't they learn? After the debacles with
Netscape and Sun Java vs MS JVM it makes you wonder.

 

[Curmudgeon]

How unfair....

On my Dell PC, they play along fine together. I wouldn't think MS
would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
antispyware

I've got both running on my PC without a problem. You've got something
else wrong with your system.

 

[Vanguard]

How unfair....

On my laptop using WinXP SP2, after installing Mircosoft Antispyware
(which I like and found things others didn't) Firefox intermitantly
would not load. It would start to and then stop (hourglass fires for a
few seconds and stops).

On first day or so, sometimes firefox worked sometimes it didn't. Then
when didn't work a reboot would bring it back.

Today, nothing would make firefox load - except rebooting after
removing gcasServ from the startup in msconfig. This seems to be what
launches MS Antispyware since its in its directory as an .exe file.

On my Dell PC, they play along fine together. I wouldn't think MS
would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
antispyware

Anti-spyware programs are not idiot proof. They should NOT be ran
automatically to have them eradicate a suspect program without letting
the user know what actions they intend to commit to perform that
eradication. However, most end users wouldn't even bother to check the
list of proposed actions, anyway, and just blindly let the tool do its
changes. Same happens to users that blindly use registry cleaners.
Anti-spy/malware eradication tools are not that good yet. Rather than
an at-your-own-risk tool, they are still an at-high-risk tool,
especially for users that fire them off and let 'em go without being
informed about where they go.

When eradicating a pest, it is possible that significant or critical
files will also get removed that were infected or replaced by the
malware. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the affected
application (Firefox)?

 

[Albert Sims]

How unfair....

On my laptop using WinXP SP2, after installing Mircosoft Antispyware
(which I like and found things others didn't) Firefox intermitantly
would not load. It would start to and then stop (hourglass fires for a
few seconds and stops).

On first day or so, sometimes firefox worked sometimes it didn't. Then
when didn't work a reboot would bring it back.

Today, nothing would make firefox load - except rebooting after
removing gcasServ from the startup in msconfig. This seems to be what
launches MS Antispyware since its in its directory as an .exe file.

On my Dell PC, they play along fine together. I wouldn't think MS
would be so bold to intentially have a firefox killer built into
antispyware

No conflicts here with Microsoft AntiSpyware and Firefox... something must
be awry with your system.

 

[JerryMouse]

If they did it intentionally to get a monoply hold on the market,
sounds like time for another law suit....don't they learn? After the
debacles with Netscape and Sun Java vs MS JVM it makes you wonder.

And didn't Micros~1 win (loose definition) all those cases?

 

[Guest]

"I have used Firefox exclusively with MS Antispyware with no problems.
Firefox is prone to hanging and not closing the process. Then, when you try
to restart it, it appears to never open. On XP, press Ctrl+Alt+Del and look
at the running processes. I can almost bet you that you'll find two
instances of FIREFOX.EXE running when it appears to not load. Kill em both
and then try starting again and you'll have success. I never had this
problem when I was using Me, but since my upgrade to XP, it happens all of
the time. Try it and see if that isn't whats happening.