"Richard Fangnail" wrote:
> I have XP and something has been crashing my Firefox. I've tried
> everything I can think of, I even ran it with no antivirus. Something
> is STILL driving CPU Usage up to 100% for no apparent reason, cuasing
> FF to crash. Any idea what it might be??
>
> The FF Crash Reports usually say Exception Violation which means
> something wrote to the memory where it shouldn't have.
>
> I have no firewall either. I tried reinstalling FF and Flash too.
Did you tried to run IE?
Do you have the latest FF updates?
Run a thorough scan by doing the following steps:
Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .
Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...freevspro.html http://www.malwarebytes.org/rr-update/rr-free-setup.exe
Run a scan from here on-line:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/d...d=ie&venid=sym http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Download Avast Cleaner (offline scanner) from here:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
Comodo BOClean : Anti-Malware Version 4.27
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html