Re: spybot disables spyware blaster
Thanks for the explanation.....not that many will know that the "funny
looking B" is really a double SS....grin. Hey, genealogists know a lot
about that sort of stuff, especially when my maiden name has a double S.
Pssst......tell Harry just to uncheck FF......he needs to be led by the
hand. OK? (G)
Cheers, Figgs
"richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message
news:uRhCgDEoIHA.5836@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Here is the quote from JavaCool:
>
> "This problem is being caused by Spybot S & D writing invalid entries
> to the Firefox hostperm.1 file.
>
> Specifically, Spybot is writing entries using unicode characters, such
> as:
> "meine-Grußkarten.de"
>
> This is invalid. According to the specification, these International
> Domain Names should be properly encoded as punycode before being
> written to the file. In the case of the domain listed above, it should
> be written to the file as:
> "meine-grusskarten.de"
>
> Note that Firefox appears to pass some characters through an
> additional normalization/conversion process before writing them to the
> file (or using them in the browser itself), as is the case with "ß"."
>
> richard
>
>
>
> webster72n wrote:
>> richard:
>>
>> I don't seem to have the luxury of undoing the protection for FF.
>> When trying to update the firefox protection, I get an access
>> violation
>> error message at 0x0046FAFC (tried to read from 0x0342E930) and the
>> program
>> terminated. That leaves me without a chance to fix anything and
>> probably
>> will have to uninstall the program and relplace it with something of
>> equal
>> value.
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Harry.
>>
>>
>> "richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23MBW1xAoIHA.4760@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Latest spybot update disables spyware blaster from enabling
>>> protection.
>>> Temp fix is to undo protection for fire fox in spybot. Until spybot
>>> corrects the problem, this apparently is the only fix, according to
>>> Java
>>> Cool.
>>>
>>> richard
>>