1e7 and firefox stopped working?

cyberstar

quite recently I notice that while I'm browsing in firefox after a few minutes of using it, sites suddenly stop loading and on the bottom left hand corner it has the word "stopped". Therefore i had no choice but to keep restarting my system. I tried reinstalling Firefox but still had the same problem. This is also affecting IE7 as well as sites just dont show up half way through loading.

Does anybody know what the problem is?

thanks

aminchom

You dont mention any other software you have, but there is a known conflict between zonealarm and fire fox. I had the same problem, and once ff stopped ie wouldnt work either. I have ditched za for comodo, uninstalled za and now have no problems.

cyberstar

yes, I'm using zonealarm too. I will uninstall it and see what happens

aliEnRIK

Let us know how you get on

If you still have problems ~

Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click DO A SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE (Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)

cyberstar

My web browser seems to be working fine since I uninstalled zonealarm, so thanks. I'm using Windows vista Firewall at the moment. Do you think that is good enough?

aliEnRIK

Vistas firewalls fine generally speaking. What about other security programs?

cyberstar

I use Avast and spyware doctor as well from the recommendation of this site. However for some reason I still get a window security alert saying my antivirus isn't turned on even it is on. I initially thought it was an AVG problem thats why I switched to Avast.

aliEnRIK

Make sure you use the AVG REMOVAL TOOL as simply uninstalling leaves bits behind/running
http://www.avg.com/download-tools

I wouldnt worry too much about the alerts so long as your sure they ARE running ok

cyberstar

Thanks, appreciate your help