Freezes at 'Variable browser hijack...'

[Guest808]

My MS Antispyware freezes, stops responding, at that part
of the scan. This is the first time it has happened. My
guess may be that it is conflicting with Tiny Firewall,
that I recently started using. Any input would be appreciated!

 

[plun]

Guest808 formulated the question :

My MS Antispyware freezes, stops responding, at that part
of the scan. This is the first time it has happened. My
guess may be that it is conflicting with Tiny Firewall,
that I recently started using. Any input would be appreciated!

Hi

Download CCleaner and remove all temporarily junk.
www.cleaner.com

Restart in safe mode, press F8 during reboot/start.
choose fullscan with all options checked.

Restart.

No problem with your firewall I believe, is SP2s firewall deactivated ?
Only run 1 firewall !

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Guest808 formulated the question : appreciated!

Hi

Download CCleaner and remove all temporarily junk.
www.cleaner.com

Restart in safe mode, press F8 during reboot/start.
choose fullscan with all options checked.

Restart.

No problem with your firewall I believe, is SP2s firewall deactivated ?
Only run 1 firewall !

Hey again! I did that, and to no avail. Still stopped
responding. I cleaned all temporary junk, and registry
issues. Although not the advanced part of cleaner. It did
get a hair further by saying "possible browser hijack
browser modifier". Could this be a false alarm? I am pretty
well protected, firewall, AV, and resident protection. I
have never had spyware or anything modify my IE favourites.
I recently added Spyware Blaster. I just tried turning off
all protection, and it did not help.

Do you think I should uninstall/re install MS AS?

TIA!

 

[plun]

(e-mail address removed) was thinking very hard :

Hey again! I did that, and to no avail. Still stopped
responding. I cleaned all temporary junk, and registry
issues. Although not the advanced part of cleaner. It did
get a hair further by saying "possible browser hijack
browser modifier". Could this be a false alarm? I am pretty
well protected, firewall, AV, and resident protection. I
have never had spyware or anything modify my IE favourites.
I recently added Spyware Blaster. I just tried turning off
all protection, and it did not help.

Do you think I should uninstall/re install MS AS?

Hi

I believe this is a false/positive but to be sure you can
do this. (from what you writes I can see that you know what you are
doing )

Next level in this "war" against spyware is a program called
HijackThis.

Download and also a link to excellent forums using this program.
http://www.merijn.org/

How to use HijackThis (be careful):
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42

Happy hunting...... !

 

[Super T]

You can use Sygate and MS Antispyware without any
conflicts. I suggest you remove the Tiny Firewall to
avoid issues.

 

[Marvin]

I am running MS Antispyware on two Dell's both with XP
and Norton SystemsWorks. One runs the Beta1 OK the other
shows "Not responding" in the task manager and 95%+ for
CPU useage. Any ideas, I am going to uninstall and
reinstall now.

Marvin

 

[JakeBarnes]

With the recent M$ prgm update ... they changed an old issue "polymorphic browser hijack scan" to "variable browser hijack scan" ... lol ... exactly the same thing, but the former was getting a lot of negative google hits. That's how I found out about the issue. MSAS beta1 totally corrupted my TCP/IP stack ... and when you can't get back on the internet, it's hard to hunt down answers with a single PC. See these threads:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=79603

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=102655&messageID=1177167

Hope this helps shed some light on the continuing M$ problems with this prgm.
Jake