weird thing on firefox by ccleaner

[coconutnut]

it happens every time i clean my system using ccleaner. reinstalling firefox does not help either..

[mountaintree16]

Hmm that's strange. That's never happened to me.

Maybe try uninstalling & reinstalling CCleaner.

If that doesn't work, try uninstalling & reinstalling Firefox (make sure you save your book marks and any settings just in case, although when you uninstall it asks if you want to retain your bookmarks so you should be safe).

[DragonMaster Jay]

Looks to be an infection in that area. Probably might want that checked out.

If CCleaner is freezing on that spot, then possibly an infection is avoiding interrogation or deletion.

[noknojon]

If CCleaner is freezing on that spot, then possibly an infection is avoiding interrogation or deletion.

Quite often a Full Scan can pick up something that a Quick/Flash Scan will miss -??

[Jaxryley]

Do a search for the "urlclassifier3.sqlite" file and check how big it is as it can get corrupted.

With FF closed you can delete that file which will be rebuilt when you next start FF.

Mozillaline Article

Here I turn off FF's inbuilt security and delete both the urlclassifier3.sqlite and urlclassifier2.sqlite files which are rebuilt and sit at an unused size of 32 kb.

Not saying anyone should do the same as I like to surf anywhere without hindrance including malware laden sites.

[coconutnut]

it does not freeze there, but appears everytime i run ccleaner. installed and uninstalled ccleaner and still the same thing.

[mountaintree16]

coconutnut,

Have you tried running ATF cleaner first? (click to download if you don't have it already)

How to use & about page:

http://www.atribune.org/index.php?option=c...5&Itemid=25

Do you have any reason to believe that you may have been infected recently?

[Jaxryley]

it does not freeze there, but appears everytime i run ccleaner. installed and uninstalled ccleaner and still the same thing.

Sorry, I thought it must be freezing there looking at your screenshot.

Uncheck all FF cleaning options in CCleaner and see if it runs to completion.

Then enable one FF option at a time and run CCleaner and see how it goes.

[coconutnut]

the cleaning completes. but it keeps showing the ff thing.....btw, i set my ccleaner to run 7 passes..

[mountaintree16]

Well for now try 1 pass or 3 passes and see if that helps

[marktreg]

Here are a couple of things which may help.

In CCleaner:

(1) Un-tick the 'Compact Databases' box under 'Applications' > 'Firefox/Mozilla'.

(2) Under 'Options' > 'Settings'. Select 'Normal file deletion' instead of 'Secure file deletion'. You only need to select 'Secure file deletion' if you want CCleaner to physically overwrite the entire file that it is deleting.

CCleaner should run a lot faster of you do these two things.

[coconutnut]

Looks to be an infection in that area. Probably might want that checked out.

If CCleaner is freezing on that spot, then possibly an infection is avoiding interrogation or deletion.

i ran mbam full scan and it came up with this

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.45
www.malwarebytes.org

Database version: 3994

Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702

4/21/2010 10:33:26 PM
mbam-log-2010-04-21 (22-33-26).txt

Scan type: Full scan (C:\|D:\|)
Objects scanned: 153544
Time elapsed: 46 minute(s), 33 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 2

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
C:\System Volume Information\_restore{E023B2B7-D7C9-42D6-9B33-2544653C22EF}\RP67\A0009428.exe (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
D:\System Volume Information\_restore{E023B2B7-D7C9-42D6-9B33-2544653C22EF}\RP64\A0009064.exe (Trojan.Downloader) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

i do not really mind it taking a long time....i was wondering what that is?

[mountaintree16]

coconutnut,

Typically only a QUICK scan is needed, just so you know for the future

As for the results found in your scan, those items are actually in the system restore area of your computer, and as far as I understand cannot harm your computer unless you use an infected restore point.