Disappearing connection in FF
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Tigro
October 7, 2011 4:31:16 PM
For like a month I've been suffering from a weird occurrence that's driving me completely insane. Namely, the connection in my Firefox tends to disappear because of no apparent reason. I'm just browsing the Net and BAM, the connection either disappears and I have to close Firefox and run it again (meanwhile all other Net-based apps are working fine) or the connection speed is dropped by such an amount that it takes like a minute or more to get to a text-based site and then it starts to behave normally. I don't have a slightest clue what could have caused this - started happening just like that, I can't recall any apparent reason. From what I see, Flash players tend to make the process faster - but it also depends. On YouTube, I can run a few tabs simultaneously and nothing bad happens while two clips on CollegeHumor are enough to stop the connection inside FF and make my restart it. There is also a Polish website which stops the connection EVERY-TIME. Five, six links clicked and here we go. It doesn't matter if I'm multi-tabbing or not. It happens on no other device connected to the router. And in case that matters: Windows 7 here. Could you please help me identify the villain?
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Tigro
October 8, 2011 8:17:34 AM
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Tigro
October 8, 2011 8:39:59 AM
Tigro
October 10, 2011 5:47:26 PM
mrmaia
October 10, 2011 6:37:48 PM
Tigro
October 13, 2011 5:20:15 PM
None of these happens while running Chrome. Tried disabling all plugins and addons, no change.
What stroke me as odd, after a little thought, is that every first time I start Firefox after turning on the PC, after a little browsing Norton gives me a prompt that RadioWMPGecko19.dll was scanned and is safe. It's a little weird it lets me know this EVERY-TIME, isn't it? After googling, I know that it may be malware but a) Norton doesn't agree, b) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware either. What then?
What stroke me as odd, after a little thought, is that every first time I start Firefox after turning on the PC, after a little browsing Norton gives me a prompt that RadioWMPGecko19.dll was scanned and is safe. It's a little weird it lets me know this EVERY-TIME, isn't it? After googling, I know that it may be malware but a) Norton doesn't agree, b) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware either. What then?
mrmaia
October 13, 2011 5:39:45 PM
Tigro said:
None of these happens while running Chrome. Tried disabling all plugins and addons, no change.What stroke me as odd, after a little thought, is that every first time I start Firefox after turning on the PC, after a little browsing Norton gives me a prompt that RadioWMPGecko19.dll was scanned and is safe. It's a little weird it lets me know this EVERY-TIME, isn't it? After googling, I know that it may be malware but a) Norton doesn't agree, b) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware either. What then?
Looks like malware. Check this out.
Tigro
October 13, 2011 6:10:40 PM
Yeah, that's the site I said I had googled a while ago.
I checked the directory Norton told me it had been in - there were five RadioWMPGecko-es, each with a different number in the end. I deleted all of them and see no difference in Media Player embeds so I don't know what this was..
I'd rather not use any anti-malwares like SuperAntispyware. The name of it and the website alone make me feel there are more malwares bundled than I'll probably be able to get rid of..
I checked the directory Norton told me it had been in - there were five RadioWMPGecko-es, each with a different number in the end. I deleted all of them and see no difference in Media Player embeds so I don't know what this was..
I'd rather not use any anti-malwares like SuperAntispyware. The name of it and the website alone make me feel there are more malwares bundled than I'll probably be able to get rid of..
mrmaia
October 13, 2011 6:17:13 PM
Tigro said:
Yeah, that's the site I said I had googled a while ago.I checked the directory Norton told me it had been in - there were five RadioWMPGecko-es, each with a different number in the end. I deleted all of them and see no difference in Media Player embeds so I don't know what this was..
I'd rather not use any anti-malwares like SuperAntispyware. The name of it and the website alone make me feel there are more malwares bundled than I'll probably be able to get rid of..
LOL exactly what I think about such programs!
And erasing all those files worked?
Tigro
October 13, 2011 6:30:46 PM
Not really. Something changed today, though - up until today getting on deviantArt, for example, always resulted in what I descripted above. No image loaded, connection lost, has to restart the browser. Today, though, it loads half of the thumbnails and even though it won't move from there and all other tabs won't load, if I close the tab with loading dA, the connection comes back and I can browse normally. Same with eBay auctions filled with many high-res pictures.
And just in case someone wanted to point me out lameness: no, it's not that my connection speed is just low
And just in case someone wanted to point me out lameness: no, it's not that my connection speed is just low
mrmaia
October 13, 2011 6:40:39 PM
Tigro said:
Not really. Something changed today, though - up until today getting on deviantArt, for example, always resulted in what I descripted above. No image loaded, connection lost, has to restart the browser. Today, though, it loads half of the thumbnails and even though it won't move from there and all other tabs won't load, if I close the tab with loading dA, the connection comes back and I can browse normally. Same with eBay auctions filled with many high-res pictures.And just in case someone wanted to point me out lameness: no, it's not that my connection speed is just low
Oh, some progress!
Now try uninstalling FF with this in Advanced Mode and deleting everything on the way, then reinstalling it.
If you think you have malware, which it sounds like you do, that's a good place to start. There is a malware guide in my signature to help rid your system of that. And yes, superantispyware is a safe and quality program.
What version of FF are you on? And if you're on the newest version, then at least uninstall it, and reinstall it.
What version of FF are you on? And if you're on the newest version, then at least uninstall it, and reinstall it.
Tigro
October 14, 2011 1:22:12 PM
OK, did all you descripted in your guide. DeviantArt loaded with all the thumbnails though right after that the connection stopped and I had to restart the browser to load any other site. Small step for a man, giant leap for the mankind
Reinstalling FF? Well, doesn't seem too likely it would fix anything to me, though I'll do it if nothing else comes to our minds. Seems it wasn't malware then, yep? I mean, Malwarebytes found some 15 malwares, CCleaner found some 500 bad registry entries (haven't heard of a workstation it did not found something on..
) and Spybot found 7 problems. They solved everything but, as you can see, it didn't actually help. Do you have any other ideas?
Reinstalling FF? Well, doesn't seem too likely it would fix anything to me, though I'll do it if nothing else comes to our minds. Seems it wasn't malware then, yep? I mean, Malwarebytes found some 15 malwares, CCleaner found some 500 bad registry entries (haven't heard of a workstation it did not found something on..
) and Spybot found 7 problems. They solved everything but, as you can see, it didn't actually help. Do you have any other ideas?
Tigro
October 15, 2011 7:48:05 PM
Tigro said:
But what, apart from CCleaning which I performed, can I do to fix the possible damage?After the uninstall, use CCleaner and than install.
Back up FF with MozBackup, as u should regularly, and make two back ups.
1. Profile with bookmarks
2. Profile with bookmarks with add-ons.
3. Re-install
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It takes about 3minutes.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Tigro
October 16, 2011 9:53:18 AM
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