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Hi LPt,
I am in the process of just that right now in the System Security Forum. I will post a reference link. Check your email notifications here in this thread.
Hi LPt,
I am in the process of just that right now in the System Security Forum. I will post a reference link. Check your email notifications here in this thread.
Lady said she was having the System hang as soon as Malwarebytes appeared in System Tray, I assumed she was using the paid real time protection which is the only Malwarebytes that would be in System Tray. Could it be ForceField which was appearing at the hang?
I do not see how the on-demand Malwarebytes scanner could conflict with anything unless it is running, and have never heard of it doing so while running. It is practically a perfect tool.
However we see problems regularly with ZA - mainly the firewall - and I've come to believe it's unnecessary trouble to use any but the Win7 (or XP if applicable) firewall unless you need specific solutions you've found or configured using a third party firewall.
I'm glad that killing these in the Task manager worked for you Lady - often as not hangs cannot be traced to processes which reveal themselves by pegging CPU. So we got lucky.
One last suggestion. XP MCE is a mess to Repair Install or reinstall (have just done one) so I'd save externally a backup image of your XP now when it's running good so you have an easy option to reimage the HD in 20 minutes if it ever becomes irreparable.
May I suggest Acronis's premium free imaging suite if you have a WD or Seagate HD, or free Macrium to Image your system.
Seagate Acronis cloning free util
WD Acronis free cloning app
Paragon 11 is also good. Make boot disk for your choice.
Greg on this XP.. that's what worked for me, really well once I could get in, stay long enough to kill off.. all of FF.
I'm going to use your suggestions about using Windows firewall.. I'll try to do the restore CD, I've never done that before. I may need steps.. to get it taken care of.
TY.
If you had just engaged the trial version of Malwarebytes then it likely started a Service which conflicted with Force Field. They may have been sniffing each other and in a stand off that was hanging the System which you were fortunately able to intercept via Task Manager.
A backup image is stored on an external HD, then if XP ever becomes unbootable you have the option to boot the disk associated with the program to reimage your HD. Much easier than reinstalling XP which is becoming too much trouble with it's age, plus you have it already set up as you like it.
Finally finished with my thread here: Malwarebytes v1.60.1800 Program Update Freezing with XP
Did take a while, had to help the DW , and our cat.
Tying up loose ends on my part:
To answer your question, no.
Greg, I hope i did not mis-lead you, but I do not see where I mentioned I had Mbam in my system tray , although it is there now.
You will have to read my System Security thread.