Hi
As you may remember I had problems with Vista and Avast. That was resolved .
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=4239.0However I had further problems ,not noticed for a few days . If I left FF, IE and or routestats running for Long period 3 hrs or so then one or all would stop responding . The first symptom on FF would be unable to connect to a site or even change site page . Eventually I found a link between AVAST resident protection. If I shut down FF quick enough then stopped the resident Avast protection I could then connect as normal.
Using task manager:
If FF had stopped responding completely then The only way out was to reboot .Windows removed the Application but could NOT remove it completely from the process page .
If Routertats stopped responding then even though the application was removed it again remained in the process page .But a second version could be started .
If IE had stopped responding then even though the application was removed it again remained in the process page .But a second version could be started .
Had same problem with OPERA
I uninstalled AVAST and tried to install AVG but that failed (still need to find out why).
Re installed AVAST
I Found some info on the FF site . this appeared to point to a possible cause
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_after_prolonged_usesee references to AVAST and ZONE ALARM
Tried to find info on IE very little there, but this was found in Zonealarm help forum
http://forums.zonealarm.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=access&message.id=37117I then decided to Uninstall AVAST again and try Avira from Antivir (thanks to Scottiesmum
) based on the FF information .
TOUCH wood It all seems OK I have run routerstats ,FF ,IE and Opera for various lengths of time up to 24Hrs , together and individually and all seems OK
I have posted this purely as Information .It might be useful to others .
regards Jeff
Regards Jeff